BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

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Maybe I am toxic to others?

Maybe I am toxic to others?

On how we can't know how other people see us & BOOK GIVEAWAY

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Carissa Potter
Jun 12, 2023
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I have been trained for 40 years to withhold information from people (both people who are close to me and acquaintances). Not because I don’t want to share it. Not because anyone expressly said that they didn’t want to hear it. But because I didn’t want to seem like I was bragging. And I didn’t want other people to feel any less about themselves through…

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