Toxic shame is a killer. It’s an internal message that tells you that you are defective, bad, wrong, and not valuable. Toxic shame isn’t personal; it’s like poison. It doesn’t matter who gives you the poison or who does the shaming, either one will eat away at you and take you down.
And, when shame comes flooding in and causes us to retreat into ourselves, our transformation is put on hold while we navigate the toxic shame.
Shame and guilt are different:
Guilt tells me that I made a mistake.
Shame tells me that I am a mistake.
I definitely used to feel a lot of shame and wanted to erase myself from life.
Over time, I learned how to change my mindset and develop the skills to eliminate the hold that shame had over me.
Now, my life’s work is to pull others out of that same dark place and into a calm and competent life by sharing the exact roadmap I followed.
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