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Scenario

How families navigate inherited shame about pleasure and enjoyment

My family has always been suspicious of pleasure — we were raised to work hard and delay gratification — but my siblings and I are adults now trying to figure out how to actually enjoy our lives without feeling guilty. We keep having these awkward conversations where we're all secretly wanting permission to have fun but don't know how to give it to each other.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The family is collectively unlearning pleasure-denial while lacking models for guilt-free enjoyment together.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

Peri

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