Appropriate Shame

Appropriate Shame

I want to talk about an interesting phrase I heard yesterday.  My friend made a joke about her husband that when he makes a mistake it’s okay because he is “appropriately shamed”.  And I just pondered that funny phrase and what it means. I thought about how, in a...
Appropriate Shame

Vulnerability Project: Confrontation

Hey, this is Stacy Rocklein and this is My Vulnerability Project.  I want to talk about “confrontation” today, because that word is coming up for me. Recently I’ve made a commitment to surrender to my intuition and less of my logical brain.  When I did that, I ended...
It’s not you.  It’s me.

It’s not you. It’s me.

Have you ever been really irritated with someone?  So irritated that every time you see them, hear about them, or even think about them you get this little wave of disgust? I sometimes find when that happens to me that I’m responding to something about that person...
How to Handle Your Bully

How to Handle Your Bully

How badly are you beating yourself up? If you are like most of us, you’ve got an inner bully who is all too eager to follow you around slinging insults and calling you names. Look what you did there, you idiot. That was such a stupid thing to say. You sure failed at...