Question 1

Describe your current laugh. Now describe the laugh you remember having before your professional formation. What is the difference?

Question 2

What else, besides laughter, have you trained yourself to contain in professional or social contexts? Name the specific expression, not the general category.

Question 3

When was the last time something reached you at the floor? Where were you? Who was there?

Question 4

Who told you, explicitly or implicitly, that your natural expression was too much? What was the specific moment or message?

Question 5

What would it cost socially or professionally to bring more of your uncontrolled response into the spaces you currently inhabit? Is that cost as high as you have been calculating? ---