No guest this week. Just us.

We have been thinking a lot about the difference between vulnerability as connection and vulnerability as performance. About what it means to go through something hard in an era when everyone has a camera and a comment section and the cultural message is that sharing equals healing.

We do not think that is always true.

In this episode, Asha and Keshiia talk about what it actually looks like to process something hard without putting it on display. The value of cocooning. The small group of two or three people who get access to the raw version. The difference between being honest that you are going through something and live-streaming the middle of it. The way oversharing while you are still in it can actually slow the processing down, not speed it up.

We are both going through things right now that we are not naming here. That is intentional. It is also the whole point.

For anyone who is in something hard and feels the pressure to perform it publicly before they have processed it privately — this one is for you.

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