Throughout this episode, we've been talking about, you know, the guilt and the shame and how these all go together.

But understanding this and believing it, it's crucial for forgiving yourself at your core.

I'm Amy.

And I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose.

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

Today we're going to tackle a big subject.

One that can have a very big impact on our lives, especially if we don't understand it.

A lot of times we find that we're moving through life so fast that we don't slow down and assess and understand our own feelings.

And as you know, we're reading Burnay Brown's Atlas of the Heart with our Patreon book club.

So in this book, Burnay really helps to define what that human experience is for us.

And it's laid out in the chapters. So there are similar groups of experiences, similar groups of emotions, all pulled together.

And you can really start to understand the differences between two words that you may be using interchangeably.

I know, for instance, going through it, I've been using words wrong for much of my life.

Today we're going to dive into chapter eight and how it talks about shame, self-compassion, perfectionism, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment.

You guys, this was my favorite chapter in the entire book.

The Patreon community knows that because I wrote it right away when discussing this chapter that these are the emotions that I personally feel every one of us has.

And they have been big parts of my life and we're going to go into the details on these because a big part of these emotions is the secrecy behind it.

It's the fact that we're not bringing them up and people think that they're struggling alone.

So in this episode, we're going to talk specifically about shame and guilt while also touching on perfectionism.

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