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Self-Disclosure Practice
The practice of revealing your inner feelings, thoughts, and experiences to deepen intimacy and connection with others. Self-disclosure plays a crucial role in developing close relationships through reciprocal self-revelation. The more you can be truly yourself and share fully, the deeper and more sustaining your friendships become. In the face of death anxiety, self-disclosure helps create the intimacy needed to overcome isolation.
Source: Described in 'Staring at the Sun' by Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom explains how self-disclosure builds intimacy and helps counter death anxiety through connection.
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intermediate
anxietydepressionstressrumination
How to practice
- 1Take the risk to reveal some intimate material about yourself
- 2Share your inner feelings and thoughts with trusted others
- 3Allow yourself to be vulnerable and authentic
- 4Notice how others respond and reciprocate when appropriate
- 5Engage in reciprocal self-revelation to deepen relationships
- 6Remind yourself and others that you, too, experience fear of death
- 7Use self-disclosure to build the intimate connections that help counter death anxiety
Based on literature
Staring at the Sun
Irvin D. Yalom • 2008
Overcoming the terror of death - an existential approach to death anxiety and finding meaning.