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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Seeing ourselves through darkness

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Excruciatingly Alive to the World

I think if you're raised in a household that doesn't really love emotions, especially sadness and crying, like crying would be made fun of. And so everything kind of comes out as anger. So it's my ready, you know, it's my go-to emotion. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just an interesting one to have because it's not one very readily accepted for women in our society. You do something in the book that is a sort of a hobby horse of mine. And I'm always here for anyone who's willing to do it, which is basically take a shit on what we think of as the self-help industry. We have these books that

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