The liberating and healing power of naming & releasing shame

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Shame.

It's one of those things we almost never talk about.

Because what does shame do?

It makes us want to hide, walk away, sometimes even disappear.

It is not the kind of thing most of us lean into (myself included), but HOLY MAMA is naming our shame a powerful practice. 

Naming it helps us to unshame it.

Unshaming it helps us to liberate ourselves.

Recently I've been experimenting with naming my shame outloud, in front of the people I genuinely feel the shame most with (you can hear a couple examples in the episode).

It has been wild, and shockingly, healing too.

To let myself be seen in one of the most vulnerable parts of myself, to look right into it and share it, and to be accepted and even... supported. 

It's amazing what is possible when we shed the shame. 

And so today I invite you to explore this practice too.
  

Resources:

• Episode 89: Return to wholeness with womb at center w Robin Rose Bennett
• Episode 121: Handbook for the Heartbroken w Sara Avant Stover
• Episode 197: Somatic practices for healing childhood wound w Kristen Stake
• Free meditation: Womb Connection & Clearing
  
   

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