Wow, I kind of don’t recognize myself… but it’s good! I wake up today with a very different goal than I ever thought I’d have. It’s weird, to be honest. I feel like it’s even only in the last 2 years that I’ve had a another significant release of the shackles I’d been living within. And that

Shame is seductive, slippery, and subversive. It pounces on us when we make a supposed “mistake” and tells us that we ARE this or that. You are unworthy  You are less than  You are a fraud  You are ugly  You are wayyyy behind where you should be right now It maligns our essence. Our “self.”