What a great read! Just yesterday I nearly had a panic attack after publishing an article that referred to my dad's dysfunction and what it was like to grow up with that. Although he is no longer alive, my husband mentioned that maybe he wouldn't have wanted those secrets shared. Instead of doing my insecure thing when my fragile self worth is hurt, I was OK with it - I reality checked it with other members of my family and everyone was at coconscious that the message of the piece would be something he wanted shared. Crisis averted. However, I have other pieces with potentially controversial points of view - though necessary to take shame away from rehoming pets in this case - but I am terrified to post on my own FB page for fear of being attacked, which ironically is what the pieces talk about as the problem with social media. I am not sure how to get past sharing this one article that I think could be so useful in the Animal Rescue community, but perhaps one day I will. For now, Medium seems more anonymous and it seemed to land well with readers. I praised a well known writer during a workshop by telling her how brave I thought she was in her writing. She said to me, "I'm not brave, I'm just doing my job." It was one of the most powerful things I've ever heard related to the process. But I still think there's some bravery involved :)