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Healing Shame

Gay Men Going Deeper

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How Shame Affects My Life

Matt: "I hid my sexual self from five till 18. That's 13 years of my very developmental formative years that I had to hide who I was" He says shame and trauma are so interconnected, because when we do feel inadequate and that we're not good enough, it's very traumatic. Matt: "When we hide one aspect of ourselves, we don't just let all the other aspects shine forward, we start to hide all of who we are."

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