That Hurts My Feelings
I thought of this title before the Nicole Holofcener movie came out, I swear.
Everybody Hurts.
Do you ever feel like an open wound? Can a look, a single word, the absence of a look or a single word, make you question your own self-worth for days? Reader, you are not alone. Times are tough, and if you’re anything like me, you make them tougher by taking everything incredibly personally. But you don’t have to suffer alone.
My whole life, I’ve been told (by therapists) “everybody worries about [insert paralyzing insecurity], they just don’t talk about it constantly.” Desperate to conform, I have also tried to keep my word vomit of self-doubt to a minimum. If you know me personally, you know that have not been very successful.
But goddammit, I’m a twenty-first century woman! It is my generational responsibility to lean in to anything and everything! My strengths! My struggles! Corporate patriarchy! So join me as I attempt to take a crippling weakness and refashion it into impenetrable armor. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for “self-loathing” as they do for “content”?
Follow my weekly newsletter, That Hurts My Feelings, and together we can build a community of commiseration. I’ll tell you what hurts my feelings (everything), you tell me what hurts yours. And maybe, by sharing, we can achieve an unprecedented understanding of the human condition. Kidding! But seriously, if enough of us are feeling it, are we really too sensitive? Or is it possible that we’re just sensitive enough?
This woman really does look like you