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Listening for Shame in Psychotherapy, Ep. 157

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The Importance of Listening to Others' Experiences of Sham

Shame is ubiquitous it's something that everybody experiences. The more marginalized identity cars you hold the more likely you are to have experienced otherness and therefore may have a really intimate deep relationship with your own brand of shame. When we can talk to others and be met with empathy it's much harder for shame to exist having being in an environment where there's a shared experience. That develops resilience right so that you develop some resilience and you have the ability to say this thing just happened if I was so ashamed of it I felt so awful my whole body was on fire in this moment every time I think about it it comes back up  that's the visceral response to it.

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