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Shame Vs Guilt
Shame is different than guilt. Guilt is the feeling we get when we do something bad, something we know is wrong. It’s something we can fix by doing better next time. We can give ourselves another chance. Shame is much more diabolical. Shame makes us feel not that we did something bad, but that we are something bad. Instead of feeling like we did something wrong, we feel like we are something wrong.
Shame is like a little piece of cheese hidden deep down inside us in a crevice that is difficult to find and hard to reach.
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Making Cosmetic Changes To Clean The Inner Shame
Times when we feel like we stink, and that other people can smell this, and that other people will know we stink and think less of us, that people in our lives that we love will think we are bad people because we smell. We explore the shameful feelings, and through that process we are able to fin...
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Only We Know Our Cheesy Smell Of Shame
People around us, friends, family, and loved ones don’t smell the cheese anymore. In fact, we might do such a good job searching for the cheese, examining the cheese, talking about the cheese, we might emotionally clean the cheese smell out completely. But the truth is, the smell will always ling...
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Early Shame Experiences
Shame starts early.
Each experience of shame is like hiding little pieces of stinky cheese deep in the consciousness of our true selves. The cheese of shame is always there, slowly rotting, and smelling worse and worse over time. The irony is, even though this shame smell i...
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The Memory Remains
But just because we’ve found the stinky cheese and cleaned it doesn’t mean we’re free of it. That smell was with us a long time, and the feelings it caused will always be with us. The goal of therapy is to become aware of these feelings and learn to accept them but not let them dictate our lives....
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How Shame Stays With Us
- Shame can be so ingrained in our lives from an early age that we don’t appreciate how powerfully it affects us in the present.
- The “cheese” of shame is always there, slowly rotting, and smelling worse and worse over time.
- Even after shame is addressed, the memory of its “smel...
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The Root Cause Of Mental Issues: Shame
Shame lies at the heart of many of the issues that bring people to therapy. The dictionary definition of shame is “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress cau...
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- Guilt is defined as an emotional state that appears when we feel we have failed to live up to the morals of ourselves or others.
- Shame is defined as an intense feeling about the self that comes from failing to live up to your own or others' standards.
Shame And Guilt
- Guilt is related to shame but is easier to rectify, as we focus our attention on the other person and apologize, accepting responsibility.
- Shame is an inward emotion that makes us view our entire self in a bad light, with us getting punished by our conscience.
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Guilt vs shame
Guilt is a private feeling of regret about something you did, and the discomfort leads to self-regulation regardless of exposure.
Shaming is about the possibility of being exposed to an audience.
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