So insightful. I especially appreciated this part, as my work centers on belonging:
"insecurity about whether we were important or valued enough to belong with others; to not belong amounts to a threat to one’s life. Our unconscious but powerful solution was to make oneself important by making others inferior, unimportant."
Thank you! I've come to the conclusion that shame is the experience of being unacceptable which, given our DNA, means we cannot belong when belonging is our method of survival. It amounts to a death threat. This understanding is what I've built upon the work of Darcia Narvaez, emerita from Notre Dame. See her resource rich website: https://evolvednest.org She is also now on Substack.
Let us also consider that war made serf-soldiers of the people and the power of the King ruler was then so strong that it was used to squash dissent among the people. Y’all better mind now! (Tilley)
So insightful. I especially appreciated this part, as my work centers on belonging:
"insecurity about whether we were important or valued enough to belong with others; to not belong amounts to a threat to one’s life. Our unconscious but powerful solution was to make oneself important by making others inferior, unimportant."
Thank you! I've come to the conclusion that shame is the experience of being unacceptable which, given our DNA, means we cannot belong when belonging is our method of survival. It amounts to a death threat. This understanding is what I've built upon the work of Darcia Narvaez, emerita from Notre Dame. See her resource rich website: https://evolvednest.org She is also now on Substack.
Brilliant.
Thank you very much.
Let us also consider that war made serf-soldiers of the people and the power of the King ruler was then so strong that it was used to squash dissent among the people. Y’all better mind now! (Tilley)
Dr Roy - thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and wisdom on the "state of affairs" in your mind and in perpetuity as it were.
I will be looking for more sage words from your educated mind 🙇♂️