Making Friends with Shame

Did you know that icky feeling you get is actually a self defense tool?

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The last article I published on Medium was a bit unhinged. I was ashamed of it, so I deleted it.

Shame is a funny thing: we classify it as an emotion, and it feels so heavy, so toxic, so burning, so awful that we would do anything to avoid feeling it. The problem is…