And it took some time, but I'm finally fine.

Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things, which is our social experiment.

It's a human experiment and our hypothesis here is that we can make life for ourselves

and you just a teeny smidge easier by talking about hard things.

So that's what we are really trying to do here, okay?

We are actually trying to easier burden by talking about the burdens and things.

We're not trying to make your life harder.

So if we have been, send us a little note.

But today, we have a real experiment to do, which is so exciting and fun.

We had Jenny Lawson on, brilliant, hilarious, Jenny Lawson recently.

It was our 100th episode.

Go back and listen to it.

And she talks and writes so much about the power of humiliations, the power of sharing

our mortifying moments with the goal of connecting us further and making life funnier and

more universal.

And it's so funny and clearly we could use some LOLs at the moment, but also it made me

think of the Brunei Brown episode where she was talking about how she talks about all

of the horrible things she thinks to her kids because she thinks that normalization is

the antidote to shame.

And it's so interesting because our mortifying stories often make us feel ashamed, but sharing

our mortifying stories normalizes that and is the cure to shame.

Right.

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