How Collective Societal Fear creates Toxic Social Norms
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Role models are people you look up to, and whose example you might use as a guide for how you want to live, behave, or grow.
Esteem needs are the human needs to feel “I matter and I’m capable,” both in one’s own eyes and in the eyes of others.
Honour is deep respect for worth – your own, and other people’s. It is about how you choose to behave, even when no one is watching. It links to ideas like integrity, fairness, honesty, courage, and respect.
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