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Growing Up: speak so people will listen & HI!!!!!!!
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Guys hello!!!! I have missed you. It has been weeks since I have written and not a moment has gone past where I haven't thought of you. Just kidding. But honestly I have been meaning to write every week for about the last 6 weeks. How rude of me to last time say "hey I'm going to write a lot more frequently again", and then to ghost you. That's like f**kboy behaviour no? Anyway here we are. (fboy definition Thanks Urban Dictionary. A literary example, if I may... have you read Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility? Mr Willoughby. OG F**kboy right there. Oof. (NB: Girls can be f**kboys too. This isn't a stab at men. Men you are loved and appreciated and needed on this Earth.)) Okay anyway. I was thinking about this idea of speaking honestly and remembered something I shared with you guys many months ago. Wait a sec... it wasn't actually last edition that I said I was going to write more regularly, it was the edition before. They were both bangers if you missed them: Growing Up: you can't be anything but you can be yourself Growing Up: how to be a good dom & dead birds Okay on honesty!!! Honesty is important (esp honesty with ourselves) but we want honesty tempered with love when communicating with others. What is the purpose of the words you are sharing? Absolute honesty "good morning dear friend. wow you look ugly today" not always necessary. The idea of honesty tempered with love is from Julian Treasure's 2018 TED talk How to speak so that people want to listen. I wrote about it back here in June 2023: Growing Up: how to get people to listen to you and online sexual threats That is kind of all I wanted to say!! I could keep going but I just want to send this so we can be besties again. This (and last) week on Growing Up with Delia Burgess P.S. Hi from New York! Flying to Austin tomorrow... P.P.S. I am not really a f***boy!!!! I can't wait to speak to you again soon and I hope you forgive my absence xoxo P.P.P.S. For all the newbies... hi welcome!!! You have never received an email from me so you have no idea what I'm talking about. So glad you have you here :) Previous editions here. Forwarded this and want to subscribe? Click here. |
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Hiiiiiii, I'm back! Okay this email is v intense but v powerful... So, remember when I sent you: Growing Up: how to be a good dom & dead birds about the book Unbound: a Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak. You know, the taoist nun / dominatrix lady? And this quote: "Many of us prefer to deny that power dynamics exist, outside of games played by greedy, dishonest manipulators. But, like gravity, just because you deny the existence of something doesn't mean it doesn't affect you." (the...
"Many of us prefer to deny that power dynamics exist, outside of games played by greedy, dishonest manipulators. But, like gravity, just because you deny the existence of something doesn't mean it doesn't affect you." Right, so I am reading a veryyyyy interesting book about POWER. It's by a Taoist nun / dominatrix lady. & although the target audience is women (subtitle literally 'a woman's guide to power'), men I think you are going to find this interesting as well so do read on... Unbound: A...
"But if it is an apple tree it will not have the ability to bear pears or plums." Guys hey, By popular demand I am writing more regularly again. So hi! (People actually read what I write? And want more? Crazy I know) I'll make this quickish though as last week was lengthyyyy (here if you missed it: Growing Up: lemme end your suffering real quick & the problem with religion) First up: "There had been a lot of situations where I was essentially told to shut up because I didn't belong to XYZ...