Tag: Shame
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On (Un)Masking
This is a topic I have been thinking about a lot over the past year or so. A topic I wanted to write about for a while. Yet it is also a topic that – despite all the reading, research and contemplation I have done – still seems to be hazy for me. Am I…
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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On Body Image Issues, Disordered Eating, Shame and Guilt
This is going to be hard blog post for me to write, but it’s something I want to share anyways. Maybe by talking about this I can help others feel less alone. That is my hope anyway. I’ve been shorter than (almost all of) my peers all my life. And until I hit puberty, I…
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Gatekeeping And Judgement or When You Start Feeling Guilty For the Books You Love To Read
Sometimes I really don’t understand people. Actually, there are a lot of things I could write about because I don’t understand people. Like capitalism. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. Instead I want to talk about gatekeeping and judgement around literature. One form of judgement with regard to books I have…
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Shame
Between reading BrenĂ© Brown’s book Daring Greatly. How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead and something my therapist pointed out on Friday, have been thinking a lot about shame. Or maybe I should say I have been thinking about it more than usual. After all, shame is…
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Who Am I?
All my life I have felt like I didn’t quite fit in with most people around me. Yes, I had friends. Close ones even. Though never many and it’s only been very, very few I felt truly and deeply connected with. Probably because I feel like people rarely seem to understand me. And let’s be…