I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing.
Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.