Shame is loud. Healing is louder

As a result of trauma, shame can echo throughout the years. Shame tells you that you are not good enough, that you are mis-wired or too much or forever unsafe.
 
Sure, shame is loud, but healing is louder. With the right help, you can learn how to parse out the more nuanced reality. You aren’t forever unsafe because you now know how to recognize safety. Better yet, you carry it in your body, so you can access it each day. You aren’t mis-wired because your nervous system has been doing what it is designed to do: scan your environment in order to keep you safe. And you know that you are good enough because you feel it, and it is reflected in the eyes of others.
 
Don’t let shame and trauma win.
 
Chris Warren-Dickins
Trauma therapist in Ridgewood, New Jersey
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