The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are __hose people._ The truth is_we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being __hose people___he ones we don__ trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don__ let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don__ want living next door.
It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.
The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and The Death of a Loved One
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It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.
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