<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The behavioral price of self-expression falls when... > The behavioral price of self-expression falls when a person has allies, competence, options, and a record of surviving disapproval. Confidence is partly the accumulation of evidence that rejection can hurt without becoming extinction. **Source:** [[livestreams/Understanding and Releasing Internalized Shame - Workbook|Understanding and Releasing Internalized Shame]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The behavioral price of self-expression falls when a person has allies, competence, options, and a record of surviving disapproval. Confidence is partly the accumulation of evidence that rejection can hurt without becoming extinction.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-behavioral-price-self-without-becoming-extinction ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->