Coming Home to You: Shame Recovery Toolkit
🪷 Heal Your Self Series
Welcome to the Heal Your Self series, full of tools from my therapy room to move on from your past and step into your true self. These tasks will help free yourself from shame. Let’s dive in!
Hi friends
I hope you had a chance to read the previous post about understanding and healing shame.
Shame sometimes serves to keep us safe, as we protect our true self from external 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 and step into yourself with greater trust, confidence and ease.
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, but it will make a difference. Revisit the other tasks and repeat as often as useful, if you are committed to untangle yourself from shame.
A Quick Way to Externalise Shame Every Day (1 minute)
3 Easy Somatic Practices for Healing Shame (5 minutes)
Dissolving Shame Dialogue Exercise (10 minutes)
Loosen Rigid Thinking Exercise (10 minutes)
Releasing Shame Letter (10 minutes)
Therapeutic Journaling (10 minutes)
If you are not yet a member feel free to join us! Posts are evergreen so you can start any time, and dip in whenever you want. You also get all the Bloom Sessions designed to help you move through topics in a similar way to how you would in Therapy.
And just hit reply or DM me if you’d like to submit a question for the anonymous, confidential Q&A for paid subscribers. Ask me anything you like! Let’s get into these exercises, or I’ll see you next week!
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.” Brené Brown