
Listening for Shame in Psychotherapy, Ep. 157
Light Up The Couch
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The Difference Between Guilt and Humilion
Knowing the difference between those four emotions is a win if a patient can leave treatment and know the difference between shame guilt embarrassment and humiliation for themselves that's a huge way towards developing resilience to the emotion. What for one person might be embarrassing could be another person activate shame because it's based on how we live and experience the world so If I am at a presentation and I have food stuck to my teeth I might not find that funny it's very hard for me to recover. My self talk would probably be something like I'm such an idiot I can't believe I did that, she says. "We feel that we are the only person who has ever made this mistake"
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