Separating Your Public Self from Your Private Self

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I've come to see that when you carry secrets born from addiction or old maladaptive patterns, you end up living in two different worlds at once. There's the self you show --- the one that speaks, works, smiles, participates --- and then there's the self you keep tucked away in the quiet corners of your psyche. The distance between those two selves can become a kind of exile. This is where Johari's…

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