In this guest post, Sheila returns to Imperfectly Honest to explore how the impact of the praise and applause experienced in our childhood may never truly leave us.

I’ve been asking myself this question since my friend, mentor, and investor, Brad Feld, released his book, Give First last summer. I like to give the same kind of support to others. I genuinely enjoy being generous. However, I have a tendency to over-give.

The idea of publicly talking about STDs is terrifying to me. Yet I’ve learned through this Imperfectly Honest journey that talking about hard-to-talk-about topics saves lives.