Why Are You Still Letting Other People Shame You?

Nancy Daley
4 min readNov 1, 2021

Opinions from a psychologist of many opinions.

This is a photo of my black cat Marco. His eyes are almost the same color as the pale yellow wall behind him.
Marco can be very judgmental

In a way, I get it. Humans naturally long to be connected. We start out in life being mirrored by our caregivers (if we’re lucky), so of course we learn to see ourselves in other peoples’ eyes.

And most of us grow up wanting to do a good job as a member of the human race. When we fall short, we feel bad…

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Nancy Daley

Artist, food-worshipper, grouch, retired psychologist and uni lecturer (Human Sexuality). Currently running for Queen of the Universe.