6 Ways to Stop Shaming Yourself!

About this episode

Liz Svatek discusses the impact of self-shaming and offers six shifts to help women stop attacking themselves and embrace self-awareness.

Today, we tackle a common struggle that many women face: self-shaming. It's time to ask yourself, how's all that inner criticism working for you? Spoiler alert: it’s not! It creates exhaustion and disconnection from your true self. If you constantly criticize yourself, overthink everything, or guilt, blame and punish yourself this episode is for you. What if the problem isn’t your discipline, motivation, or mindset? What if shame is secretly running your life? In this powerful solo episode, Liz Svatek breaks down the hidden ways women use shame as a form of motivation—and why it never creates real transformation. Shame creates nervous system dysregulation and trauma responses that lead to perfectionism, procrastination, people pleasing, and emotional exhaustion. Learning how to dismantle shame is imperative because all of us have it! This episode will completely change the way you see yourself. After years of coaching women, studying trauma, Human Design, mindset, and nervous system healing, Liz shares the 6 highly conscious shifts that help women stop attacking themselves and finally start changing from a place of awareness instead of punishment. In this episode, you’ll learn…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Svatek

Topics covered

• self-shaming
• inner criticism
• transformation
• nervous system dysregulation
• trauma
• self-awareness

Keywords

• self-judgment
• guilt
• perfectionism
• procrastination
• people pleasing
• emotional exhaustion
• trauma
• nervous system

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