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RSN™ Guest Editorial: Stopping Shame by Jackie Corbett

RSN™ Guest Editorial: Stopping Shame by Jackie Corbett

RSN™ Guest Editorial: Stopping Shame by Jackie Corbett

By Jackie Corbett, Senior SCARS Volunteer & Victim Support Group Manager

Let’s Stop Shame In Its Tracks? Extend understanding to yourself, no matter how hard it feels.

Extend empathy to yourself, no matter how difficult.

Extend courtesy and respect and compassion to yourself, no matter how challenging.

Shame cannot survive in…

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Real isn’t how you are made

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” 

- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams