The following post was originally written a couple of weeks ago for my personal blog. I wanted to share it here because it will provide some background for next week’s post as well as explain a few of the childhood experiences that helped shape the therapist I am today. By tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be heading back to Indiana to be Read more…
Shame is an unbelievably powerful force. It can cause us to avoid situations and people. It is a powerful, demanding, and terrifying master. It can also disguise itself so that it’s bearer doesn’t recognize it. So often it is confused with guilt or appears to be pride. Maybe what causes our shame is a life-long repeated event, maybe it was a Read more…
“Being a fighter’s all about coming back. That’s when you find out the true character of a person.” That quote is from an NPR story about Claressa Shields, a 16 year-old boxer on her way to the US Olympic Team for women’s boxing. I thought this was a well-done and inspiring story, but in particular, that quote stood out for me. Read more…
