“So either you’re bad, or God is,” I continued. Piper was still nodding. “Or . . .” I smiled, “the ‘shoulds’ are the problem. The shame is the problem.” “Yes,” she said with a final nod. “Exactly!” She threw her hands up in the air. “This is energizing! Putting it in a context—this is what it looks like—I feel like, I don’t know, I’m not totally fucked. It’s a the-emperor-has-no-clothes moment. Somebody has got to stand up and say, ‘actually wait a second,’ and then all of a sudden you realize that there’s a lot of people out there that were just waiting for you to say it!” Her smile widened.
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