Shame
Sometimes procrastination is a creative and business ASSET. Here are four counterintuitive insights about procrastination that will help you leverage it.
Clearing the way means looking for the daily road-blocks and friction and clearing internalized limits and biases that block personal power.
“Lying to ourselves” is a lie. When we build our analysis about money and power, we can see through the lies — and that’s how we get free.
Likeability is a trap is weaponized against women and girls, to prevent us from being on our own team, taking care of ourselves, and pursuing our dreams.
Power can be generative and beneficial for everyone involved, rather than destructive and coercive. Here’s how to grow and steward your right use of power.
Getting free and healing is never one-and-done. Especially when the source of injury in an oppressive culture that wants you to disappear — remains.
We internalize messages about individual defects but when we zoom out and look at the bigger picture of social structures, we see things differently.
How privilege gets displayed AND LEVERAGED in our social media feeds — in pictures of our hair, kids, counter-tops, vacations, dinners and everyday life.
We feel shame if there is a social expectation that we feel we’re not meeting, and that’s why I think shame is a wildly helpful at understanding oppression.
The Fantasy of Being Holiday Fabulous gets in the way of actually having fabulous holidays. So let’s retire it. [H/t Kate Harding’s LIFE ALTERING 2009 essay, The Fantasy of Being Thin]