Shame Recovery Toolkit

🎧 Shrinking Shame. Heal Your Past Series #4.2

This is #4 of the Heal your Past series, full of tools from my therapy room to move on from your past. These are the tasks to integrate this week’s topic, Shame. Free subscribers you are welcome to upgrade to take part.

Hi friends

I hope you had a chance to read the previous post about healing shame. Shame sometimes serves to keep us safe, as we protect our true self from harm, but…

• The hedgehog doesn’t hibernate all year round.

• The caterpillar doesn’t stay in its chrysalis.

• People leave the bunker when the war is over.

• The turtle pokes her head out of her shell when she’s ready to move on.

The Shame Recovery Toolkit

To send shame out into the wind, choose one or two of these tasks that fit your experiences best. These ideas have worked with my clients in therapy; they are long established tools to unravel shame from your being.

Even if you don’t feel ‘shame’ especially, these also improve mood and self esteem, and help you move on from difficult past experiences. This work is often ongoing as you’ll see from the comments on the last post Healing Shame, but it will make a difference. Revisit the other tasks and repeat as often as useful, if you are committed to untangle yourself shame.

1. A Quick Way to Externalise Shame Every Day (1 minute)

2. 3 Easy Somatic Practices for Healing Shame (5 minutes)

3. Dissolving Shame Dialogue Exercise (10 minutes)

4. Loosen Rigid Thinking Exercise (10 minutes)

5. Releasing Shame Letter (10 minutes)

6. Therapeutic Journaling (10 minutes)

If you missed any of the previous posts in the Heal Your Past Series you’ll find them all here.