It’s Time to Get Real About Your Friends

Britt East
Nov 4 · 10 min read

Moving from self-shame to self-love

My family raised me to be isolated and subservient. To define my worth by my usefulness. Society re-enforced this through an unrelenting homophobia that forced me to don masks, detach from hope, and dissociate from society. I believed them when they said I would end up alone, so never learned how to allow myself to be seen. To step out of the bunker and…

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Britt East

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Inspirational writer and public speaker, at work on an upcoming memoir.

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