Karena Pyle’s Reviews > Joining: The Relationship Garden > Status Update

...So people learn to function in roles that are effective for survival but involves a closing down, a contraction of the energy body. The self is "put into cold storage with a secret hope of rebirth", safe from the judgments and possible rejections of others. Then people find difficulty in being exposed either to others, or to themselves. They are unlikely to be vulnerable in relating to others.