“Some of the most extraordinary moments can be devalued and stained by feelings of shame and unworthiness – thought patters that spiral you into an existence of limitations. You don’t even realize you are doing it, and you think because you are exerting a tremendous amount of effort to make things work, you are on […]
“Shame is the ego’s passive/aggressive marionette.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Guilt justifies our limitations, keeps us in unhealthy relationships and poisons us from the inside out.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“All relationships have weight. Are you leveraging the sum of yours for strength and courage or is the toxicity of it crushing you with shame?” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeño.com
Yesterday morning I watched Brené Brown in her TED talk presentation: The Power of Vulnerability. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. You can watch it here. One part of it that struck true was when she brought up numbing. You can’t selectively numb. When you numb yourself from one emotion, you numb […]
