I Thought It Was Just Me: Excerpts 2 by QuirkyCuriousBex, journal
I Thought It Was Just Me: Excerpts 2
At long last, here is Part 2 of my excerpts from Dr. Brene Brown's I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't). These are excerpts that stuck out to me, that I could relate to, that made me think, or that I felt were inspiring. Hope you like them!
“In a culture of shame, we are constantly overwhelmed with feelings of fear, blame and disconnection. This creates an ‘us and them’ world. There are people like us, and then there are ‘those other people.’ And, we normally work very hard to insulate ourselves from ‘those people.’ As children, there were the people that we were allowed to hang out with and then