[Fear Less] The 3 paradoxes of shame & the MASTER KEY to recovery
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Jessica and Andrea discuss the 3 paradoxes of shame, its ties to fear, and the role of self-compassion in overcoming shame.
Take a listen to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between shame, fear, and self-compassion and the role they play in eating disorder recovery.
Key topics in this episode:
- The interconnectedness of shame, fear, and eating disorders – how shame fuels the disorder and perpetuates the fear of not being good enough.
- The power of self-compassion in breaking free from shame and fostering a transformative recovery journey.
- Recognizing the disordered cycle of self-criticism and negative motivation and embracing self-compassion as a new approach.
- Overcoming resistance to self-compassion and taking baby steps towards incorporating it into daily life.
- The shift from striving for perfection to embracing self-acceptance and messy growth, leading to a healthier, happier version of oneself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fearless, an audio series designed to help you take action towards letting go of your eating disorder. |
| 0:12.7 | My name is Jessica Flint, and I'll be your guide to helping you embody the recovered version of yourself. |
| 0:18.3 | Like every human being ever to walk this planet, you and I are not |
| 0:22.9 | immune to fear. It is biologically programmed into our brains. At the same time, I'm committed to |
| 0:29.6 | not letting fear control my destiny and want you to have the same freedom. Every time we choose |
| 0:35.7 | courage over fear, we grow stronger and receive what we desire |
| 0:39.3 | most in regards to our recovery, our health, love, wealth, and impact in the world. In order to |
| 0:46.5 | fully let go of your eating disorder and whatever is holding you back in life, you need to learn |
| 0:51.0 | how to alchemize fear into courage. So let's lock arms and do this work together. Time to fly. Time to fly. |
| 1:15.3 | Welcome back, my warrior loves. |
| 1:18.2 | Today we're going to be talking about three paradoxes of shame. |
| 1:22.2 | Now, when we look at this emotion of shame, it is so heavily tied into fear. |
| 1:26.6 | And we have an antidote to working with shame, |
| 1:30.3 | and that is self-compassion, which we're going to be exploring today. And along for this |
| 1:34.0 | fearless journey is my co-pilot, Andrea Wells, the new host of Recovery Strong. So Andrea, so |
| 1:39.7 | happy to have you here again with us to talk about fear and shame and self-compassion and all these |
| 1:45.5 | marvelous things that go into unraveling our eating disorder and building a recovery in the process. |
| 1:51.4 | Yes, thank you. I'm so glad to continue this. And in a really weird way, I just want to say, |
| 1:55.7 | I'm so excited to talk about shame. It's such a key part of our suffering and eating disorder recovery and self-compassion |
| 2:03.5 | is a big part of overcoming it. And I definitely have a personal experience with that. As I was telling |
| 2:09.1 | Jessica, before we recorded, I'm like, this topic is getting my juices flowing. So I'm excited to |
| 2:13.8 | dig in. I love it. That was me with like shadow. It's like, I can't wait to talk about all this really hard stuff that we don't want to talk about. So what is it about shame that really gets your juices flowing? Well, just because it was what fueled my eating disorder, living in shame and secrecy and isolation and shame around my body fears of not being good enough. |
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