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Pride in Every Month
Jay Michaelson Ph.D. |
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I didn’t start meditating until after I came out – which, in my case, was relatively late, around age thirty.
I don’t think this was a coincidence. I don’t know if I’d be able to “sit” with all the shame, tension, and deceit that I’d lived with for the first decade of my adult life. After all, I was lying to everyone I knew, especially those closest to me, about something essential to who I am in the world.
At the same time, I don’t want to shame myself for all that deceit. It was a survival tactic. Growing up in Florida, way back in the 1980s, being gay was about the worst thing a boy could be. So of course, I denied it – first to myself, and then to others.
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| Radical Honesty |
| Oren Jay Sofer |
| Honesty starts by being honest with yourself. Learn to build your capacity for speaking up and saying what’s true. |
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