This is the Terry Cole show and as you might have guessed I'm your host Terry Cole.

For over two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, and I'm also

the founder of the Rail of Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp.

On this show I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews,

and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines in the fascinating world of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode.

Well, hello and welcome to the Terry Cole show. I'm your host, Terry Cole, which I guess you've figured out by now, and I'm super

excited about today's episode where I'm going to be

talking about how to become shameless. Why do we want to become shameless?

All right you guys get it it's a bit of a play on words right become shameless. What, all right, you guys get it, it's a bit of a play on words, right?

Become shameless.

But really I'm talking about guilt and shame today and how those emotions can be shifted

and changed and how they really can negatively impact the quality

of our lives and they can also propel us to do good.

So let's break it on down. Most of you know

Bernay Brown talks pretty extensively about this and if you don't know you should

look her up immediately because she's amazing but she's been talking for years since 2012,

2011, she's been talking about shame and a lot of her stuff is around

vulnerability, but I'm super interested as a psychotherapist for the last

22 years. I've seen so much shame and guilt.

And it's not just toxic shame.

When we talk about toxic shame, a lot of times there's an implication that we were shamed as children or that there's

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