Closets Are No Place to Live: Ash Beckham

衣橱不是居住的地方:阿什·贝克汉姆

Good Life Project

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2014-10-17

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When you hear the phrase “coming out,” what do you think about? For most people, it’s telling the world you’re gay. Truth is, we’ve all got closets. Deep thoughts, experiences, beliefs, often so painful they lay buried under piles of emotional laundry in the dark corner of our closets. Thing is, holding these things back is a source of pain. You can push it away, deny it, but it’s always there. Until one day, the pain of keeping it hidden exceeds the pain of letting it out. And, so you do. That moment is hard. Really hard. And there's no comparing your hard to someone else. Ash Beckham knows this. She's lived it. And now, she's talking about it. When Ash stepped onto the stage at TEDx Boulder last year, her intention was simple. Share her story. Talk about closets and comparisons. And how they can unlock or destroy our lives. Twelve minutes later, the audience rose to applaud and Ash thought that was that. Until a few weeks later when the video was posted and exploded online. Seems she’d touched a nerve. That talk is now one of the most watched TED talks of all time. And it’s thrust Ash into a global spotlight. Now, we're talking to her in this week's episode of Good Life Project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • You might not ever know what it's like to love someone of the same sex in a romantic way.

  • But you know what it's like to be in love.

  • And I know what it's like to be in love.

  • And so that like feeling that you have in your gut when you're scared or when you're in love or when you have your heart broken or when you're nervous about something, like that's the same.

  • So when you hear the phrase coming out, what do you think about?

  • Well, for most people, it's telling the world that you're gay.

  • Truth is, we've all got closets that we come out of, though.

  • Deep thoughts, experiences, beliefs, often so painful that they lay buried under piles of emotional laundry in that dark corner of our closets.

  • And the thing is, every deeply held secret is also a source of incredible pain.

  • You can push it away, you can deny it, but it's always there.

  • Until one day the pain of keeping it hidden exceeds the pain of letting it out.

  • And so you do.

  • That moment is hard.

  • Really, really hard.

  • And that's what we're talking about in this week's episode.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good Life project.

  • When Ash Beckham stepped into the stage expo the last year, her intention was simple.

  • Share her story.

  • Talk about the closets and comparisons and how they can unblock or destroy lives.