S4E6 Trauma and Shame: Self-Perpetuation
Being Known Podcast
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How to Protect Yourself From Shame
Shame is not just an emotional event, even though i experience it as such. It is an event that i feel, but that it is mediated through my physicality. Names actually do hurt me as much, if not more, than sticks and stones do. I can often be when i don't understand something about a lot of things, like i feel ashamed. It evokes shame. And so i don't just have the reaction shame also takes advantage of that disintegration. Because of that, i tend to isolate myself even further. This is another thing. Shame depends upon isolation. In order for it to flourish, inorder for it to be strengthened and active, it needs me
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