Chronic Shame & Perfectionism
You don't want to fake it anymore..
The voice of shame is loud. It’s critical, harsh and often stuck in blame.
There’s often a secrecy about your past and fear that if you share too much you won’t be liked or accepted.
The inner critic, perfectionism, isolation and blurry boundaries are signs of chronic shame, usually as a result of unresolved trauma.
Shame leads to feeling like something is inherently wrong with you; there’s a sense of embarrassment threaded into your needs, desires, thoughts, opinions and emotions so it keeps you small.
Shame tries to protect you from being rejected or experiencing any familiar pain from the past. If no one really knows you then you won’t get hurt.
That often creates a feeling you don't belong anywhere. Even with your own family and friends, there's a sense that you're on the outside of it all.
Shame is more than emotion, it's a lived experience that overpowers thoughts and feels real in your body. It keeps you frozen and blurs your own identity.
“Love thrives through the skillful audacity to share an inner life."
-Gertrude Stein
BENEFITS OF THERAPY
You deserve a life of expression, creativity and love
The intention is to learn how to transform shame. It’s moving toward the pain to turn it into an experience that offers growth and change.
You’ll learn to understand shame and use the information it provides to guide you. The gift of working with shame will reveal how it connects to your values and decisions.
The subconscious program can change so that you truly believe nothing is wrong with you.
There’s ways to free yourself from shame so you can cultivate your sense of self. This means you’ll shift how you think and feel about yourself as well as develop agency and connection to your mind-body-intuition.
As you melt the freeze response of shame you’ll find harmony--a life of balance of flows from creativity, self-expression and openness.
We’ll work together to break down societal norms and messages as well as cultural expectations that contribute to your feelings of shame so that you’ll gain insight as an individual and as part of the collective world around you.
You were born during this time from a reason. You are meant to be here. You belong here.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung