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This is Nicole Whitney News for theSoul Life changing talk radio from the uplifting
to the yet explay. Thanks tothe great honor to have you on the
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Go to News for thesoul dot comto join the next live show. Now
that's news for thesoul dot Com.Next on News for the Soul. Bridging
Realms with Becca Honeycut. Becca isan energy healer, body mind counselor with

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a passion for shadow work, theart of making the unconscious to conscious.
It's about diving into the depths ofyou, facing and embracing your deepest fears
about yourself to reclaim and empower youto move forward in this beat of your
own authority. This is an excavationand reclamation of the soul. This returns
to you the ability to trust inyourself, unapologetically, speak your truth and

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have full freedom of expression. Pleasewelcome back Becca honeycut to News for the
Soul. Hello, and is Misbeccahere on Happy? I believe we're already
on the age? Holy snap?How do we make it to December?
I just don't know. Oh,twenty twenty one, Aloso twenty twenty two,

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and we're still in the middle ofall this jazz. So exciting,
and can find out what's going tohappen next? Today I wanted to talk
to you about shame? What isit? What does it do to us?
How can we get out of it? How can we notice it?

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And because I'm all about diving intothe deep end of the pool, how
can we work with it? Shameis one of the most avoided feelings or
emotions. I probably the most avoidedshame and humiliation. And we will do,
like absolutely anything we can not tofeel that. We run away from

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ourselves. We will become this falsepretense of something that we think we need
to be. We will more ofourselves, twist ourselves and bind ourselves up,
and do anything we cannot to feelit. So what is it?
What is shame? Shame in mydefinition, is the feeling that there is

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something wrong innately with you. It'sdifferent than guilt and guilt might would be
some would be I've done something wrong, so the behavior is wrong with guilt,
but there is something innately wrong withme is shame. And we don't

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want to feel that way, LikeI don't. I don't want to feel
like I did anything wrong. AndI'll just start with me. So in
my household growing up, everything Idid was wrong. I breathed too loud,
I walked too hard, I slamedtoo much. Why can't I be
this girl and be more flopy andpretty? And why do I walk like

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a truck driver? These are thethings that I constantly heard growing up in
my household. And the thing aboutthis is it chips away at you in
a way that I feel like nothingelse really does, because there's such a
dependency Usually the person you're hearing itfrom, there's a dependency on like I

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want to get love from them,or if this happened to you as a
child. Most of us experienced thisin childhood. It's actually part of our
developmental cycle. We go through itsomewhere between like two to five where we
learn about these things and most ofus are getting like shamed for you know,
we aren't potty training fast enough forour parents or my You know,

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I drew a pretty dinosaur, butmy mom called it a pretty flower,
and I'm ashamed that she didn't knowwhat it was. Like, this is
a whole developmental stage that every singleone of us goes through. So it's
not anything that we're getting out onor out of, but it chips away
at us because there's a dependency forlove on the people that are doing this

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to us. And I don't saydependency like I should probably pick a better
word, but I don't have itright now, like codependent, But like
we're that's where our love comes from. Like we're learning to love from these
people that are trying to love us. And when they're showing us, they're
shaming us for something, whether itbe subtly or obviously. If it happens

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long enough and repeated and often enough, it chips away at the whole of
who we are. It makes usdoubt ourselves. It makes us think less
of ourselves. It makes us startto blame ourselves and criticize ourselves and call

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us horrible names like I'm dumb,I'm stupid, I should know better.
You know, what are some ofthe ways that you judge yourself? What
are some of the ways that youknow you beat yourself up constantly, that
there's at least one or three phrasesthat you are constantly saying in your head

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that start with I should this,or I'm you know, I screwed this
up, or I'm stupid for thisor something like that. And if that's
true, I see you and youare dealing with internalized shame. And the

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thing is because this is something wewill run from feeling. Right If I'm
gonna run because I don't want tofeel shame. When we are the thing
that we feel ashamed of, there'sno freaking where to run. Where the
hell are you gonna go? Youcan't leave your skin, even though you
might want to, but you can't. So you're like trapped with feeling you're

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this horrible thing and you can't getaway from it. So what we do
is start to repress any kind ofmemory we have about this. We can
repress like who we are, thetruth of who we are, because if
that got shamed for me, itwas my too muchness, so I was

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too big, too much for otherpeople. That was also I spark.
There's a gift in that for me. And when that got shamed for me.
I closed off my heart, cutoff from everything, I gave a
crap about and shoved it way thefuck down in the basement. Me.

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I shoved me way down in thebasement, and then I kind of locked
the key and threw it away becauseI didn't I didn't want to feel that.
I didn't want to deal with that. And the pain of what others

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that others were shaming me, thatwere supposed to love me, were doing
to me made me feel abandoned emotionally, and I didn't want to feel that
either. Like it just cycles onitself. And the problem is, once
we bury ourselves in that basement torun from shame, this weird unspoken energy

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starts to build and build and buildand build, and it doesn't ever stop.
And it's slow and subtle, andI don't fact we really notice it.
You can go years, decades withoutreally noticing this. It's just this

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feeling. And then what happens isit starts to express itself, because whatever
we suppress has to express and it'llexpress our itself through us in like these
bursts of anger or shaming others.That's my favorite. I think I became

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a big judger and a big shamerbecause I was trained by the best,
so I was That's what I did, was I was going to give it
to you. Because and it's thesame cycle as abuse, right, because
there's two ways you go when thishappens. Is you become the pattern that
happened to you. So if shamewas used on me, I'm gonna shame
you, right, So saying likehurt people, hurt people, this is

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the same thing here. And becauseI didn't hold on to that part of
myself that I shoved underground, becauseif I held on to her and not
locked her in the basement, Ican guarantee you I would have gone out
of my way to make sure thatI never shamed anyone or I never judged

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anyone. So these are the twoways that that can show up. So
we but either way we end uplike shutting a piece of ourself down when
we encounter this. Because if I'mif I'm obviously, if I'm down there
in the basement and I can't getto anything in the truth of who I

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am, I can't be compassionate mym my judgmental self needs to lash out
at somebody. It needs to lashout. And if I'm gonna go the
other way and be so accommodating,not necessarily not to shame or judge,

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but to I'd be too I'm tookind because now I'm not even speaking the
truth of what I'm angry. Idon't want to make people feel bad,
and that shuts me down in otherways. Right, So some of the
long term effects of this are ofliving with shame for long term are numbing

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out, feeling dead inside, orwhat I like to call one of the
walking dead, where I'm just likewaiting for death to come and take me
off the planet. I know betterthan to do anything about it myself,
but that feeling is still there,but I'm just waiting for it. I'll
just get through my life. I'lljust survive it. That's one of the

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long term effect of this. Andif you just you die a little bit
inside each day. It takes youso far away from yourself. And then
the other part is that you hateyourself so much. You can hate yourself
so much because you have to.There's something about admitting that you are the

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monstrosity. At least this is whereI took mine. So my rage expressed
itself as judgmental as well. Asshowing up to punish me and to be
the monstrosity. If I'm gonna,if I'm gonna be this horrible, horrible

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thing, I'm gonna show you howhorrible I can really be. Right,
I'm gonna prove to myself that I'mthis horrible thing, and then I'm gonna
jet myself and I'm going to blamemyself and I'm gonna criticize myself for it,
and it shuts us down? Canyou? I mean, you've got
to be able to feel this already, and if you are, I'm sorry.

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I talk about this stuff all thetime, so it's just in my
wheelhouse and I forget how triggering thiscan be. Let's just lease just take
a breath and open focus and ifyou've got any tension in your body,
because you know what I'm talking toyou, just focus on there and breathe

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and have some compassion for this becauseyou're not alone. We all have it.
It's just how much do we knowand what do we do with it?
It's just an emotion. There isnothing innately wrong and bad with who

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you are. That's the lie thatwe bought into because we were we experienced
this before we had any kind ofrationale or a fully formed brain to understand
all we were where emotions and energy, and when the energy of shame comes

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at you packs quite a wallop ona little kid. We feel it.
And how this, you know,how can this show up in other other

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areas of your life? Man?This can affect your job, your life,
your internal patterns, your relationships,your connection to spirit or God can
be affected. And how you showup in the world is affected. If
you are constantly apologizing for being alive, there's no way you're going to be

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able to speak up for yourself.There's no way you're going to have a
voice that actually speaks the truth ofwho you are. How can you set
a boundary from a place of tryingto apologize and then you turn into an
unwilling doormat to everyone around you becauseyou don't want to hurt anybody else's feelings

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and they don't seem to care.So they're just living their lives and doing
them And you wonder, how comethey can be that strong but I can't
because they are having a different relationshipwith shame. In relationships? Am I
always giving in to my significant other? Am I always just going with the

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flow. Am I ever saying whatI need and want? Do I even
know what that is? That's theother thing machine can do is if you
spend enough time here. We callit survival mode, by the way,
And if you spend enough time here, and it's getting bigger and bigger,

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because it's building and building and buildingand slowly taking you down from your unconscious
place of being. You may berunning so far out of fear of shame
that you don't even know what youwant. You've never been given face to
figure that out or time, andyou've certainly never given it to yourself.

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And did it even occur to youto ask yourself that question? I mean,
it's like some of this stuff islike it sounds so simple, but
it really really isn't. When youget into the subconscious, which is what
shadow work deals with, you're dealingwith very very subtle energies that pack a

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big wallop in places that you can'tsee it coming because it's coming from within
inside the building. Right, wecan do everything to control, embrace ourselves
for what we know is coming atus from outside the building, meaning outside
of ourselves. But when it's comingand it's happening to us, from inside
of us, from a place thatwe aren't even aware of. Can you

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see how this can really mess withyour life? Can you see how this
can really keep you stuck? Andyou keep trying to break these patterns and
break these patterns, but you're tryingto do it from a place of doing
meaning doing it outside in the world, my relationship to I'm going to change
my relationship with this thing outside,like with the job. Why can't I

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stand up at my job? Ikeep trying, I practice the words,
I practic to have this really hardconversation with my friend, and I'm still
in the same place. Why can'tI get my mouth to say what I
wanted to say? This is why. It's an unconscious pattern that is running

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who you are. You cannot changethis from like outside of you. You
can't. You just can't. It'slike that. It's a horrible analogy,
but it's just the visual that's comingthrough my mind right now. It's like,
you know puppets, You get thehand shoved up their body, and

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it's just the hand is really runningthem, right, The puppet's not running
itself. This is what these unconsciousthings that are hidden deep within us do.
They're the hand, and we can'tbreak these patterns until we get to
know and understand the hand itself andour relationship to it what it is,

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not from a place of controlling it, but from a place of learning from
it, of allowing it to beour teacher. So I'm going to take
you into a quick little meditation.And if you are sitting down and not

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in a car, please feel freeto do this. If you are in
a car, please do not donot do this with your eyes closed.
And you may want a journal ina pen with you to help you,
because I'm going to ask you,guys some questions. You may want to
write them down. So we're goingto do a meditation with Shane as your

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teacher. Okay, And before westart this, I'm going to tell you
do not reach for answers with yourmind. There's no getting it right.
There's no right answer. I don'tcare. You're not getting graded on this.
This is literally about tapping into feelings. So you're going to follow the

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feelings. And you know what thosefeelings are. When you're feeling ashamed,
the ones that make you run fromit. That's like, oh, that
feeling in your gut where you justthe sensations that are happening in your body.
I want you to allow those inand allow them to inform you of
what can help you down here.Okay, so you're following sensations, not

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the mind. So just t gisybreath and close your eyes and get company
and just begin to allow your systemto get slow and heavy and slow and

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heavy, like someone is pouring beautiful, thick, golden honey over your head
and it is just slowly dripping downand taking all of those extremeous thoughts right
out and down into your heart,noticing what you feel there, and down

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into your torso and into I say, second chakra, your gut place a
whole a lot of power, andjust let that light up. And I

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want you to just imagine. Soyou're sitting at a table in some really
cute cafe and you've ordered your coffeeor your tea, and it's on the
way when you're getting ready to havea meeting with your teacher shame. And

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as your coffee comes to the tableand you notice a fake you're walking towards
you, and it pulls up achair and sits down. When this is
shape, then you've known this,You've known shame for a long time.

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So, hey, Shane, howare you doing all right? Now?
Now you've had that experience, tapback into your gut, stay there at
the table with Shame and tap intoyour gut and into the second chakra,

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and then ask Shame as you tryto, you know, tap into it
or allow it to just become presentin you as well as a cross from
you. What is it that you'retrying to teach me? And just let
whatever comes out or you come out. What do you want me to know

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that would help me be in arelationship with you? How do I discard

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myself when you're around? How canI show up differently in a way that

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supports me when you're near bread?And if there's anything else you wanna ask

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Shame, ask it now, andthen just wrap this up. You can

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come back at any time and beginto bring best to your clothes and thank
Shame for showing up and having thisconversation with you, and then just allow

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Shame to leave. Take a deepbreath into that gut and allow that energy
to reascend up your torso into yourheart and then slowly come back into the

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room into your body. Run backhere with me. So, what did
you learn. Most of the timewhen I do these kinds of practices,

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the answers that I get are sovery unexpected, because shame as your teacher
is different than shame as you're likea predator or your keeper. Shame as
a teacher wants you to know aboutyourself. So I didn't call shame in

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here to be like you're a bad, horrible person. That was not the
point of what we were doing here. This is my own shame, and
what does it have for me tolearn about it? So when I did
this practice with my own shame,God has been so many years. The
things that it told me was,you know, I appreciate you because you're

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strong, tough, and you fightback. And I was like, oh,
maybe inside myself, but this wassome of the things that were coming
up for me, right. Iwant these things to be able to point

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towards your strength. That's the pointof doing meditations like these or you know,
check ins, whatever you want tocall these things. And if you
begin to build relationships with these thingsthat bother you or that you feel powerless
against, they can actually turn intoyour greatest supporter. They can help you

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get out and break some of thesepatterns. So now I'm gonna give you
some other tools being able to noticewhen shame is being used against you and

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how to choose your response differently.So, first of all, when people
use shame against you, what arethey doing? Are they just getting off
on it? No, they're usingit to control you, possibly because they're

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afraid of you, or they're afraidof being out of control. They may
need to be the one in controlof everything. And if I don't know
where you're going with something, I'mgoing to shame you. That makes me
feel safe, right, So forme, I just use myself as an

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example because I'm the only thing Igot right now. Is I used to
have to be the best person inthe room or the worst person in the
room. It depended on what wewere talking about, right, So if
we're talking about how much we knowand getting things right and all that stuff,
I would have to I would haveto know more than everyone in the

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room or feel that I did,and if I didn't, something was wrong
with me. Right. If Ididn't, I was unsafe Because if I
could see where you were coming onehundred miles away from me, I knew
how to protect myself. I alsoused to have to be when we were
talking about traumatic things the worst inthe room, Mine was the worst.

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I was the worst. Nobody else'strauma was worse than mine, because that
also made me feel safe. It'sa weird little thing. And I had
a friend and my best friend whoI used to shame her all the time,

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very subtly, and I didn't knowI was doing it. Some part
of me felt the unsafety part ofit, where I felt like I was
unsafe and I but I didn't consciouslyknow I was doing it until one day
she pointed it out, and shesaid, we're doing some stuff around like

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witchcraft and paganism, and she wasjust learning some of the stuff, and
I've been doing some of this fora while, so of course I knew
more right. And she kept askingme questions and and my opinions about things,
so that just put me more incharge and more in control. But
as she kept learning and she keptlearning, she was like, you know,
I have to bring up that youconstantly do this thing where I might

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be doing it right, but I'mnot getting it good enough, or I'm
not doing it exactly right according tothe way you see it. Do you
know you're doing that, and Iwas like, oh crap, No,
I did not know I was doingthat. I'm so sorry. I had
no idea, and she's like,why do you do that? And I
just started crying. I knew exactlywhy I did it, but I had

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no idea I was doing it.And I told her, I said,
because if I don't know more thanyou, I feel safe. That feels
out of control to me, andI don't feel safe, so I have
to know the most so that Ican be the safest. If I know
the most in the room, itmakes me safe. If I'm the worst

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in the room, it makes mesafe. If I know more than you,
it makes me I feel safe.And then I had to go look
at that because that's my work,right, dive into my own feelings of
unsafety, and heal that and we'refine. I don't do that to her
anymore, but I definitely told herif I ever do that again, please

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call me on it, because Iactually appreciate that. I appreciate when people
let me know you're crossing a linewith me here like this doesn't feel good
to me. It wakes me upto what is unconsciously running me. And
I am always grateful for that.But that's just one way this can show

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up in our life. Right,how many of you have to be the
best or the worst in the roomto feel safe? Did you know you
were even doing that to feel safe? Because this stuff can really hide behind
ego where it's just like I know, I like to know more, I

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like to be the smartest. Right, that's just the easy bypath. What's
really going on underneath that is Iam afraid. It's a front, right,
it's total bullshit to hide us fromever feeling ashamed that I don't know
what I should know, that I'mnot the smartest in the room. The

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problem is that shame attacks the verycracks in us that we already fear and
hold in ourselves. Isn't good inus? Within us, we already have
doubts about this place that we're tryingto grow, right, We're not like
we're learning. It's usually always happeningin some place that we're learning about ourselves,

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about something else. It doesn't matterwhat it is. We're learning something
we don't know how to do.And when you are shamed before you have
the chance to figure out how todo that thing, we shut down this
happens. The shame happens. Webecome ashamed of everything that we're doing,
who we are, I get itwrong, I'm wrong, I'm bad.

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I should have known better because it'swhat they told me, and I grew
up in a house with that dynamic. You're walking on eggshells all the time.
You're trying to find its order inthe chaos if the rules are constantly
changing, So what if we juststart to look at where we think we

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aren't good enough and shore that up? So how can we stop taking shame
on recognize when it's being used againstyou? And that means having enough observer

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self, which is basically like theone I call it, she who notices
where I can notice my behaviors whileI'm doing them, And I believe in
one of my other things on herethere was an observer meditation as well,
but just practicing waking that observer upso that you're not triggered when it happens.

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If someone is shaming me, now, I see that crap coming a
mile away. I never used to, and it took me like twenty years
to break that pattern. It doesn'thave to take twenty years for you,
but it took me twenty years tofigure that out and figure out how to
break that pattern. It has tolearn to recognize it. Are they making

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some comments at me? Are theymaking me feel less than? Is the
language they're using making me feel lessened? Because there's times where we can just
feel lessense doesn't mean somebody's shaming me, right, then I'm doing it to
myself. That's harder to see.So I'm starting with outside of you first.
So knowing the language of shame,like, what are some you know,

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shaming language sentences? Right, likeyou're not good enough, you didn't
do that. Right. We allknow the obvious ones. You're stupid,
you're dumb, you could screw upa free lunch. I've heard that.
I heard that growing up a lot. But the less obvious ones are like,
oh well you could have done thata little better. Oh it's almost

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perfect. You'll have a better lucknext time. Right. If there's super
subtle ways that this can really showup in your life, what you have
to pay attention to is how isit affecting you? So if you hear
this, if someone's outrightly shaming you, like you know, oh well you
didn't do that, right, that'sone of those middle of the road.

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Ones, right, Oh, Isee that you screwed that up. You
got that wrong. Stop and noticewhat's happening for the person who is speaking
to you. Don't make it aboutwhat you did wrong. Don't buy that
lie. If you hear that languageand you feel that feeling of shame,

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go stop full stop in yourself andboom, let's pay attention. Are they
in fear? Do they need tocontrol me? What's happening over there?
Are they feeling unsafe? And ifyou tune into that space in your gut,
your sensations will give you tools toknowing some of the's answers. If

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you're doing this from the mind inorder to punish somebody, that's not what
we're doing here, right. Wejust want to stop because we don't deserve
this for one and no one's goingto stand up for you but you,
and it frankly, isn't anybody's jobto stand up for you but you.

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But if you don't have the toolsto do that, boom here we are
right now. Let's give them toyou. So knowing the language of shame,
recognizing it when it's being used againstyou, and then being able to
observe Oh, that feels like shameto me, and you can always ask

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it. Ask them questions, getcurious and see what answers you get.
Oh are you you ask them straightup? Oh? Are you trying to
shame me? Right now? Uh? Uh uh? That'll stop them in
their tracks and keep it honest andkeep it a cool conversation. Right.

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Do I scare you? That's myfavorite? Am I freaking you out?
Are you afraid you can't control whatI'm going to do next because you don't
know what's coming out of my mouth? Is that a problem for you?
What's happening right now? Because I'myou know, it's like I'm picking that
energy up that has nothing to dowith me. So please don't give it

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to me. It's not mine.Won't take it. But you also bring
the unconsciousness into the room. Youwake it up, You bring it into
caciousness. Because they may be doingthis real place where their little hand is
running their puppet. They don't necessarilyknow what they're doing to you. Some
people might, but not everybody.It's not always so obvious, conscious and

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on purpose to manipulate you. Mostof the time they're running their little hands,
running their puppet, your little handsrunning your puppet right, and you
calling that up and saying, oh, what's happened with that? Felt really
like a shaming thing to say tome. I wonder if you're aware of

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that? Is there something going onwith you? And they're gonna be like,
uh oh, it's going to dropthem deeper into themselves and might create
deeper intimacy for you guys like ithas the opportunity to open a lot of
doors here. Right, this isn'tabout being right, and this isn't about

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harming people, and this isn't aboutgetting revenge. This isn't about any of
that. It's about getting honest withwhat is happening inside of you and stopping
yourself from being triggered and just reactingto being conscious and being able to respond.
Gives you more power over your likewith yourself that you can actually stand

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on and use as a good foundationto come out of any heidi places or
places you might be hiding from yourselfbecause of this. Right, And then
the next thing is take all thesepractices inwards, so once you've done enough
outward, you can start to shiftthe stuff going on inside of you,
or both will happen simultaneously. Ittends to so know yourself and learn to

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overcome your inner weak spots that wouldtake you down, Shore them up,
find out what shame is here toshow you? What does it appreciate about
you? And what do you appreciateabout it? Sit down at the table

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and that little coffee table and askat that question. You'll get crazier answers
from that. It blows my mindand then it's like you can even ask
shame questions about what work can Iyou know? What can I do to
show which I think I asked toshow up differently? What can I do
to stand for myself? What canI do to to to not get triggered

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when y when someone is shoving youat me? Shame will tell you if
you approach shame as a teacher,it will show you Shame kills vulnerability,
creativity, and our ability to putup boundaries. It causes us to shrink

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and hide, even though we craveto be seen, heard and belong.
But how can we belong when we'rehiding the truth to who we are?
This is the conundrum. We haveto be able to get back to our

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vulnerability safely, learn to have ourown backs, and then move forward from
a place of strength and having ourselvesbefore we try this out on the world.
You wanna feel good, you canstop those people from shaming you.
But if you are in a placeof vulnerability, you know, like,

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don't try this with people you knoware gonna take you down if you end
up in that situation. Yes,but to put unless you feel like practicing
that way where you're gonna put yourselfin these situations to try to do something
different than I would encourage you tohave massive amounts of compassion. Come with
massive amounts of compassion for your self, right, So don't go practicing this

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on purpose with people and then beatyourself up for not doing it right.
So that's what I'm talking about.It defeats the purpose if you're gonna go
practicing this people before you shore upthat inner space in you bring loads of
compassion for yourself so that even goOh, make it a learning experience,

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make every failure a learning experience.What did I learn from that? Okay?
I learned that I could hear ithappening in my head what I wanted
to say, but I couldn't getit out of my mouth. Great,
you just completed step one of shiftingthis. I'm just gonna let you know
right now, there's like, youcannot shift this overnight and in two minutes.
This is a proicess and it's gonnatake time. So you need to

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be able to allow yourself the timeit takes to do this, and everyone's
going to be different. So compassionis the way to do that. It
takes time to build space between ohI got triggered to oh I reacted.
Oh, that's going to happen probablytwenty more times before you're able to go
get to oh I got triggered,ooh oh. I didn't react that time.

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I still didn't get out what Iwanted to say, but oh my
god, I didn't react. Ijust walked away. That is a win,
people, That is a freaking win. Take that shift to the bank.
I want to make sure that youguys also know when you're dealing with
this stuff, that you are celebratingthe hell out of your wins. Okay,

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that's to shift patterns. That's oneof the most important things you need
to do. And the reason thatwe're stuck where we are, most of
us, if you're dealing with thisstuff, is because not only were we
never celebrated or to hold yau forachieving something. It was that carrot.
You could never get it too.It was meant to keep you on the
wheel. Not again manipulative, maybeso, but more of just these people

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who are using some of these shametactics and some of these other things.
It's just the way they were raised. How bad did they have it before
they got into this incarnation and gaveit to you. They had it worse
than they're giving it to you.I'm telling you right now, because we
all learn this shit from somewhere,So bring that in there too if it
helps. Oh, not to dismisswhat you're feeling, because I don't want

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to do that, but to justhonor what's really happening here. They had
it worse, so they don't knowany better. I'm here and I'm shifting
this pattern. Okay, I knowthe battlefield I'm standing on. I've got
all my pieces. My bag ofcompassion is right next to me. It's
got it little legs, and it'swalking with me, so that anytime I

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need it, I can read inthere. Got my celebration in my bag,
so that if I'm going no,I couldn't get that out of my
mouth. But you know I didn'tfall in the same way. Yay me.
I love hearing the yay me whenpeople realize that they've been able to

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break a pattern and it's just subtlechanges repeated often, that's all it is.
So that has been Bridging Realms podcastfor you today, and two things
before we wrap up today, Iwanted to let you know that I want

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to let you know about so partof what I guess the most out of
is interacting with people. So Ireally wanted to offer the ability for you
guys to be able to reach outfor help with place is where there's like
emotional stuckness or unexpressed emotions that youmight want help with on the air.

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So if that sounds good to you, starting next week, I'm going to
open some time to take calls andhelp people navigate through uncomfortable emotions, situations,
whatever I can. In short sportsdoing shadow work. So it's going
to point you back towards yourself andthe power you have and or where to

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find it. So if you're interested, I invite you to join me in
that here in two weeks at twopm Pacific time, right before the holidays.
So I'm sure all that families,Definet just be bubbling right and service.
The second thing that I wanted tolet you know about is a free

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live masterclass that I am teaching onthe sixteenth of this month. It is
called clean Up Shadows Read Things holdingyou back from your inner power, and
this will have a lot of juicytips inside that you might find helpful.
So I invite you to join mefor that if you like to. By

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for forty eight hours if you can'tattend live at that time. I have

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some value out of this. Ifyou have any questions or things you want
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