Most people know how to brace for bad news. But there's something quietly harder about sharing — or receiving — good news. If you've ever found yourself announcing something wonderful with a kind of apology in your voice, or you've noticed yourself go flat when someone you love tells you something great happened for them, this episode is about that.

This episode covers:

• Why sharing good news can feel shameful or exposing — and where that instinct comes from
• The connection between how you relate to your own achievements and your capacity to genuinely celebrate others
• What Brené Brown calls "foreboding joy" — the automatic pull away from positive intensity — and how it breaks contact with yourself and with the people you're close to
• How anxiety about other people's reactions can cause you to downplay your own life, and how to interrupt that
• What to do with jealousy when it comes up — including how to let it point you toward something useful rather than taking it somewhere destructive

This is the kind of conversation Jackie and Catherine have with clients all the time — the smaller, more specific places where closeness breaks down. If you're curious about what it might look like to work on this, both of them offer free 15-minute consultations and would be glad to talk.

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