Healing the shame that binds you.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Welcome back to Adult Child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in

a dysfunctional family.

And today we are joined by comedian, actor, and more importantly, someone who has really

paved the way for having vulnerable, difficult, yet empowering conversations about all the

shit that so many of us try to avoid talking about.

Mr. Paul Gilmarton, he is the host of the Mental Illness Happier Podcast where he talks

about addiction and childhood trauma, mental health, all that shit that none of us, you know,

suffers from it or could really do.

And he's getting real and raw with us today.

He's going to share about his childhood, about hitting bottoms in sobriety, setting boundaries,

and toxic shame.

Now we are way past you on having another conversation about toxic shame.

This is such an important piece of the adult child syndrome.

Now John Bradshaw has his book Healing the Shame that Binds You.

And I would say that it is shame that binds us adult children, you know, regardless

of the specific details of our childhoods or how this is showed up for us as an adult,

this shame piece is something that we can all really identify with.

So let's just recap a little bit of what we talked about in episode three.

So healthy shame, regular shame.

This is an emotion that arises from having the consciousness that we have done something

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