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Shame is a paralyzing force. In fact, it's so difficult, so painful for most people that it gets buried very deeply within the psyche so as not to be experienced in any conscious way. Then of course, it works its diminishing magic more subtly, more insidiously, out of view, but no less active and damaging for that. This seems to happen automatically, as a necessary strategy for survival and for some level of "acceptable" functioning in the world and in relationships.
Too bad. Yet at the same time there is the possibility of growing into a conscious approach to this horrible sense of oneself, and when this can happen, and when this self identity can be approached and worked with therapeutically and compassionately, the shifts in one's experience of oneself, the grace with which one can begin to relate with oneself can be astounding and wonderful.
If you are feeling stuck in therapy - or in your life for that matter - or if you are finding yourself repeating patterns that you thought you'd "worked with", or that you can't seem to get a grip on, or that are destructive or damaging or...........
it's possible that a more focused exploration of shame in your being could open things up for you in ways that will be very beneficial.
