Unlearning Shame

You cannot live a full life if you are disconnected from yourself. You cannot build healthy relationships, feel deep connection, or experience true peace while wearing a mask. Enter shame.

Shame is a quiet killer of the spirit of our sense of self. It’s the invisible script so many of us are handed early in life—one that tells us we are wrong for simply being who we are. Not wrong for something we did. But wrong in our essence. And the antidote to shame is not confidence, or perfection, or being "enough." It’s connection. The very thing shame prevents us from seeking.

It’s the shame of feeling too much. Of being too sensitive. Too loud. Too needy. Too gay. Too emotional. Too sexual. Too different. Not thin enough. Not masculine enough. Not successful enough. Not put-together enough. Not healed enough. Not independent enough. Not cool or calm or detached enough.