LibraryScenariosWhen someone else's courage highlights your own hiding
Scenario

When someone else's courage highlights your own hiding

I've been passing as straight at work for ten years and now there's a new openly gay colleague and I feel like a coward every day.

Juana
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complex shame that comes from witnessing the freedom you've been too afraid to claim for yourself.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and community — who we are in belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.