It can be truly painful when your private life becomes too public. I have always struggled with the debate between sharing everything with everyone in an attempt to be validated, cared about, empathized with etc… and being private; keeping things to myself, letting them sit only in my head, protected from the biased judgement of others. I’m still undecided. How many besties do you have?
For a good amount of time I have considered reducing the number of confidants in my life. This suggestion originally came from attending a seminar months ago by Dave Howlett of Real Human Beings (RHB). RHB is the concept that in order to become a real human being we need to move from being…