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Jennette McCurdy hasn't always made space for her more difficult feelings.
"I realized I had so much judgment around my emotions, which just made it more difficult to actually accept them and process them," she tells Popsugar. "I had so much self-loathing around difficult emotions because of thinking that there were only a few acceptable ones. I thought, 'You're supposed to be happy and grateful all the time. That means you're a good person.' So I would just pretend to be that, and if I felt anything else, I'd punish myself."
Over the years, the author, whose raw and powerful memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," has spent more than 60 weeks as a New York Times bestseller since its publication in August 2022, has realized that berating herself for having strong feelings didn't exactly work for her. Now, she's making space for her emotions in a...
Jennette McCurdy hasn't always made space for her more difficult feelings.
"I realized I had so much judgment around my emotions, which just made it more difficult to actually accept them and process them," she tells Popsugar. "I had so much self-loathing around difficult emotions because of thinking that there were only a few acceptable ones. I thought, 'You're supposed to be happy and grateful all the time. That means you're a good person.' So I would just pretend to be that, and if I felt anything else, I'd punish myself."
Over the years, the author, whose raw and powerful memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," has spent more than 60 weeks as a New York Times bestseller since its publication in August 2022, has realized that berating herself for having strong feelings didn't exactly work for her. Now, she's making space for her emotions in a...
- 11/7/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
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