Now imagine a bully followed you home from school when you were young and started living in your house.

Now eventually, you stop noticing that bully, but you start thinking the bully's voice is your voice inside of your head.

Shame often sounds like, God, you should know better. What's wrong with you? Everyone else can handle this.

You're so stupid. You should definitely focus on everything that could go wrong, because everything

can go wrong for you at any moment. People often think that they're being realistic,

looking for worst case scenario.

They try to convince themselves that this is a good looking out sort of strategy.

They're actually repeating an old shaming voice, maybe an old bullying voice,

that at some point became their own.

Now they don't know the difference between that bullying voice and a voice of wisdom.

So boy, do they listen.

And boy, are they affected.

Hello and welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where a Moxie meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.

And on today's episode, we're discussing, is it shame?

Shame is a huge player in the lives of highly sensitive people, and many don't even know it. Today starts a bit of a

shame series here on the public feed and in the exclusive Patreon episode for June. If you've had a lot of

anxiety, hypervigilance, survival mode, and malise, that seems beyond the work you've done to have peace, integration,

and a quiet present mind. Please consider listening to all of these episodes on shame.

It's a very big topic. And I don't know that I've done it justice on the show so far.

I hope this episode helps shine light exactly where you need to come out of the shadows of shame.

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