“Pity and sympathy were such a waste. I’d been held in the hand of God. Her light was cast on everything now. I saw beauty
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Shame and Human Drama
“I sometimes wonder if shame is the ultimate human drama, a kind of inner theater offering neither intermissions nor emergency exits. It can arrive from
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“Doing unrectifiable, stupid things is universal and shouldn’t stop one from moving forward in life.“ Dancing at the Shame Prom: Sharing the Stories That Kept
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“It was a familiar crossroads. Every moment of my life before had held the same two paths. And every moment, I’d struggled to choose the
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“And so the campaign began, the unconscious drive to hide the mess inside. I didn’t know what that mess was, exactly. I just knew I
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