“I Know Something You Don’t Know”

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
7 min readOct 5, 2020

How to tell when holding other people’s secrets, can be a problem for you

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Secrets involve much more than listening and keeping quiet. They are those things about ourselves we purposely hide from other people. They are also things that people tell us for safekeeping. Whether it’s information about ourselves, or information we are given on the presumption of confidentiality, secrets are far more complicated…

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.