Shame is not something you just pick up. It is beaten into you - TopicsExpress



          

Shame is not something you just pick up. It is beaten into you — verbally, emotionally, energetically, by family, culture and media. Your first innocent expressions being shut down, whether it is in your home or in the schoolyard, about body, personality or social status — we are quick learners and this shapes our future responses. Curbs our freedom to express. Now this wicked henchman, this built-in saboteur, limiting us in our desires, restricting our freedom to act and express safely, has an important job: to keep you safe. Yes, he cares deeply for our well-being, wants to make sure we do not embarrass ourselves, a ridicule-preventer designed to protect us. Yet, as a result, we get paralyzed with fear, experience performance anxiety and have basic deep feeling that we simply are not good enough..
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:26:06 +0000

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