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How family shame around pleasure creates collective joylessness

My family acts like wanting pleasure or enjoyment is selfish and frivolous, but I'm realizing this has made us all kind of miserable people who don't know how to celebrate anything.

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A family system has created shared beliefs that pleasure is morally suspect, leaving everyone emotionally impoverished.

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“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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