How Shame Infects Your Life And What To Do About It

Shame is a master of disguise.

It doesn’t usually announce itself. Instead, it mimics your own inner voice.

It sounds like logic. It sounds like the truth.

• “I am too much.”
• “I should be further along by now.”
• “If I just tried harder, I could fix this.”

The Difference Between "I Did Bad" and "I Am Bad": Most of us confuse guilt with shame. Guilt is helpful: “I made a mistake.” It helps us repair relationships and change behavior. Shame is destructive: “I am a mistake.” It attacks our identity. It tells us we are fundamentally flawed, unlovable, or broken.

When shame takes over, we don’t just feel bad—we feel unsafe. We hide. We over-function. We shut down. We try to earn a sense of worth that we actually never lost.

In this workshop, we are going to treat the infection.
We will move beyond the vague advice to "just love yourself" and use specific, practical tools to dismantle shame in real-time.

What We Will Explore:

• The Vocabulary of Worth: How to distinguish between Guilt, Shame, and being Ashamed—and why Self-Worth isn't something you build, but something you uncover.
• The Scripts of Shame: Identifying the specific phrases the "Shame Vendor" sells you every day (and how to stop buying them).
• Cognitive Management: How to use logic and The Quarantine Method to stop a shame spiral before it consumes your day.
• The Antidote: Why Self-Compassion isn't just "being nice" to yourself—it is the biological reset switch that turns off your threat response and allows you to feel safe again.

You do not have to live at the mercy of your inner critic. You are not the problem. Shame is just a script you were taught—and it is a script you can rewrite.

Recording: All participants will receive the workshop recording and the slide deck within 24 hours.