Break the Silence : Name the Shame

It is scary to speak up about feelings or experiences that we have learned to feel some sort of shame about. It’s scarier when we don’t know how our speaking up will be received. 🗣

It takes courage to go into the darker, shadow spaces of ourselves. To begin to integrate all of our parts- the things we like or don’t like. To be who we truly are. And to realize that we learned or were told at some point whether to like or dislike ourselves or parts of ourselves.

One of the benefits of talk therapy, coupled with mindfulness practices, is to feel clear enough in our own sense of self that being vulnerable feels like an act of strength - not the act of weakness that we’ve been taught to think it is. And that we get to say and re-learn what we like and don’t like about ourselves. And from that new self aware place we can heal and help others heal.