How comfortable are you on this timeline?

The shame that asks us to stay awake and resist the seduction of ignoring or normalizing what should never become normal.

There is a kind of shame I’ve been noticing lately, and it doesn’t originate in the body the way the usual one does. I wrote about something similar in my book in the section about vicarious shame. This particular shame doesn’t grow from desire or secrecy and it doesn’t even show up within you but instead it arrives sideways, secondhand. I’m talking abo…