11/13/2025
When we don’t feel safe to be seen in our full humanity (our needs, our imperfections, our longing, our mistakes) we protect ourselves by judging others for theirs.
We critique, gossip, judge to subconsciously create distance from our own vulnerability. Yes, I know, sometimes it feels like a means to connection, but it’s a surface level one.
The more we can accept all of who we are, the less we lead with being “better than”. Because the truth is the more gently we hold our own humanity, the more room we have for the humanity in others.