Avoiding and Eliminating Humiliation and Embarrassment

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Fear of embarrassment and going through humiliation set the stage for today's episode. There are steps you can take to avoid humiliating situations, and steps you can take to squash bad feelings after an embarrassing situation occurs. Even the embarrassing events of years past can pop up over and over again, especially when people you know keep rehashing it. If you want to stop reliving the past, or get over the shame, or even what you might consider the unforgivable stuff you may have done, this is the episode you don't want to miss.

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0:00.0	Are you tired of that same old rehashed personal growth advice that all seems to boil down to think positively and all your problems will go away. If affirmations feel like lies
0:16.7	and positive thinking feels like denial, then I want you to get ready. The overwhelmed
0:22.2	brain is here to help you create the life you want now. Hello, this is Paul Kolyani, the host of the overwhelmed brain, the personal growth show for the critical
0:44.7	thinker.
0:45.7	Every week I discuss practical down-to-earth steps to help you improve yourself and your relationships.
0:51.5	We'll talk about why we do the things we do and what we can do to reach higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm.
0:59.0	I'm here to help you create positive changes in your world.
1:02.0	Expect to feel empowered in every episode,
1:05.0	and if you ever hear me sound cynical,
1:08.0	it's because I do whatever it takes
1:10.0	to help you get the resources you need
1:12.0	to create the life you want.
1:15.0	Today's episode is all about how to handle humiliation.
1:19.0	And it's really about embarrassment and humiliation and situations that we get into that are
1:24.7	embarrassing and humiliating but I'm going to share with you the several ways that you can
1:28.6	handle it and even how to avoid feeling it altogether.
1:32.0	Humiliation is one of those events in life that when it happens,
1:36.9	we just want to curl into a ball and hide from the world.
1:40.7	But why?
1:41.6	What's the big deal? Can humiliation exist without anyone else knowing what happened?
1:47.0	In other words, can we feel humiliation when there's no one else around or is it dependent on other people knowing about the situation?
1:56.0	If you've ever felt humiliation, you know it's a feeling you don't like.
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