How to speak honestly to yourself
A simple guide to day-to-day moral clarity
You would have heard about being kind to oneself. We wrote about it earlier to explain the difference between shame and regret.
Understanding the difference between shame and regret
Regret is “I did something bad.” Shame is “I am something bad.” Regret can be healthy if we reflect on our actions and commit to making things better one day at a time. Shame, on the other hand, can lead to us resigning and accepting that we are beyond repair.
Then there are useful aspects of leveraging humor in our daily lives. Again, it is a constructive way to move from heaviness and burdensome daily interactions to something sprinkled with joy.
However, sometimes it helps to know where we are in life: The unvarnished version, the one that makes you squirm. Today’s newsletter is about that
Humor Seriously: Making Sense of Our Weird and Whimsical Life
Writing this newsletter was hard because something tragicomic happened just as started putting pen to paper. Tickling the funny bone can get tricky when your whole foundation is shaken. These days one can’t help but think of Dante’s Divine Comedy where for the first time humans were depicted as the products of a specific time, place and circumstance as …
How to Speak Honestly to Yourself
Most self-help advice tries to take you away from the moment into something more manageable. Its goal is to take you to a space and place where you can visualize a brighter future. One risk is that people don’t spend enough time understanding what they are dealing with.