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Everyone messes up and feels shame in one way or another. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if more people were up front about it?

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“I don’t deserve to be happy.” “I’ll never be good enough.” “I’m not worthy of love.” Sound familiar? I hear phrases like this all the time in my work helping women walk through divorce.

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It was easier to tell those around me how I fell in love with the wrong guy who, by the end of our relationship, showed his true form as the monster I truly saw him as.

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Shame is powerfully toxic. Sometimes it’s deadly.

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Eating disorders really are the last effort we take to continue keeping it all inside.

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A combination of growing older and being pushed outside of my high school forced me to mature and question my internal racism.

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I always thought online mobs were scary and dangerous. But this new normal seems just as scary.

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“My boss showed the entire staff that he has 5 nipples at the company Christmas party one year. He even let one girl touch the 5th one.”

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People are quick to judge and slow to listen. And that’s totally fine. That doesn’t necessarily make them the bad person and I’m the victim—it just happens to be a common tendency.

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I understand the story differently now. “The woman, she made me do it,” he explained. Here it was: The First Betrayal; The first Deferring Of Responsibility; The first Casting Of Shame.