Ep. 66- How Shame Shapes Your Relationships and Self Worth

About this episode

Carla discusses the impact of shame on relationships and self worth, sharing personal experiences and insights on healthy versus toxic shame.

In today’s episode, Carla opens up an honest conversation about shame and how it quietly drives so many of our behaviours, from relationships to self worth to the way we cope. She shares her own experience with shame and explores the difference between healthy and toxic shame, how shame develops early in childhood, and why it is one of the hardest emotions to identify and process. Timestamps 00:00 How grief lives in the body and resurfaces over time 01:47 New...

People in this episode

Host: Carla McGreevy

Topics covered

• shame
• relationships
• self worth
• emotions
• childhood development

Keywords

• shame
• self worth
• relationships
• emotions
• toxic shame
• healthy shame
• childhood

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