There’s a reason coming out of hiding feels so hard and it’s not weak faith. It’s how we’re wired.
When we feel exposed or “bad,” the brain’s threat system (centered in a small almond-shaped region called the amygdala) lights up the same way it would in physical danger. The body’s instinct is to protect itself: hide, defend, perform, or disappear. That fig-leaf reflex from the garden is still running in all of us. Shame […]
