The presence of others leaves us feeling exposed. However, even though it feels as if other people are doing the exposing, in reality we carry the shame with us all the time. Other people simply trigger its appearance.
--Edward T. Welch, When People are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1997), 35.
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