# Keeping secrets causes sickness. #Secret #shame [[08-03-2021]] **Shame thrives on secrets** -Shame thrives on secret keeping, and when it comes to secrets, there's some serious science behind the twelve-step program saying, "you're only as sick as your secrets"...the research team found that the act of not discussing a traumatic event or confiding it to another person could be more damaging than the actual event -- Research by James Pennebaker (university of Texas)" - Source [[Daring Greatly How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead]]