So if you have your phone, I use it for recording to talk.

Please don't use it for texting while we're here in this room.

It's just nice for us all to stay connected.

So I was every year at Thanksgiving, I generally give a gratitude, Buddhist concepts of gratitude talk, which I am so

fucking bored of giving. There's like seven, well I've been teaching 10 years, we're recording the

podcast for the last seven, so there's probably seven gratitude talks on the

site. So if you want to hear gratitude talk they're available.

And then I thought, oh good,

since I don't have to give that,

I want to give a talk that I want to give and then I immediately thought of this talk on

trauma that I wanted to give.

A lot of people are going to see their families.

Here talk on trauma?

That's not really necessarily a good idea.

And so I went to, I don't know how giving a talk on shame came up, and shame and low self-esteem but it just popped into mind and so I threw

some notes together. We'll see if it makes any sense.

Shame is quite a wide spectrum of iterations

in the human experience. We can just have feelings of guilt and remorse over wrongdoings.

We can have feelings of disgrace, embarrassment, humiliation, loss of face, and from a social group.

And then there's what some Buddhist teachers like Tara Brock I really like call the

trance of of feeling

inadequate feeling inferior, mediocre, not matching up to and these are sort of global stories about who we are

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