When people belittle others, it is often a defence strategy, designed to keep them “less than”, the individual doing the mocking, and this allows them to stop listening to that individual, to pretend to themselves that they are irrelevant.
Shaming others means trying to make someone feel bad about themselves by putting them down, often in front of other people
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between
