Shame in Real Life
I don’t think I could have defined shame with words until fairly recently, but I have known what shame feels like for as far back as I can remember. I am guessing you know how shame feels too. Shame feels like I am not enough. Shame feels like I am less than. Shame feels like I am unworthy of love. Shame feels like I am dirty. Shame feels like I am a bad person. Shame feels like _________________________. You fill in the blank. How shame feels can be summed up in one word: DE
Getting the Wind Knocked Out of Me
It was already a super stressful day. In fact, it has been a super stressful summer. On top of the busyness of summer, the emotionally-loaded challenges seem to keep piling up. Add to that we had just passed the one year anniversary of my uncle’s death (the man who held a fatherly role in my life), and well, I was emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted, and then the letter arrived. It was a well-meant letter. It was a letter full of concern…and fear. It was a letter
