One Wound, Many Masks
A wound never builds just one strategy. Some of the ones it builds are almost impossible to see — not because they’re hidden, but because they’re praised. How to find the defense you’ve been applauded for.
A wound never builds just one strategy. Some of the ones it builds are almost impossible to see — not because they’re hidden, but because they’re praised. How to find the defense you’ve been applauded for.
People ask what my process is for working through a challenge. Here, in real time, I trace a fear of being seen back to its root at age five — and take one small step through it.
You can name the story — I’m too much, I’m not enough, I have to earn my place — and still find yourself living inside it the following Tuesday. That’s not a failure of insight. It’s what happens when you’re working on the surface of the story instead of what the story is protecting.