Fear and Shame about Asking for What you Want - with Tina

Chronic unhappiness and feeling stuck can often result from creating a life centered around perceived obligations to other people. The expectations of family, friends, and the dominant culture can reinforce shame attached to doing anything for yourself, asking for what you want or pursuing fun or pleasure for its own sake.

Underlying this shame is often an anxiety about rejection. Releasing this fear and shame to express what you need - and even what you simply want, whether essential to well-being or not - can be enormously freeing.

In this episode, Tina talks about ways that narratives in their childhood encouraged them to be smaller, quieter, and focused on the needs of others, and how they came to live a fuller, more self-authorized life.

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