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Shame... The Path Out of Hell

A trauma therapist exploring, with you, how to understand and work with your shame.

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You Can’t Rush Healing

The Truth About Shame Recovery

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High Functioning vs Low Functioning Trauma

(How You Respond to Crisis)

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When are you unsafe?

Shame Recovery: Safety, Boundaries & Deserving Better

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When Are You Safe?

(The Beginning of Shame Recovery)

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Your Phone Is a Portal to Hell

How to Slow Down (Kindly, Gently, Slowly) to Heal Shame

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The Radical Practice of Being Gentle

Learning to Land

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Shame, Social Media & Weaponised Anxiety

Why Becoming Calm Feels So Hard

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Three Types of Shame Part Three: Toxic Shame

How shame manifests itself: projected, internalised and toxic...

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Three Types of Shame Part Two: Internalised Shame

In this video I explore internalised shame, the second in a three-part series looking at the different forms of shame and how they shape our sense of self.

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Projected Shame: When Shame Passes Itself On

Shame wants to replicate. Recovery begins when we notice what is being projected and what we no longer need to take in.

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Anger, Shame and the Brick Wall Between Us

Anger can feel powerful and even protective. But in relationships? It can create fear, mistrust and distance...

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Loneliness Is Not Just Being Alone

On shame, anxiety, the lonely child state, and the strange consolation of staying separate.

Projection: When Shame Makes You Decide What Others Think

How “hating how you feel” turns into blame, misunderstanding, and emotional battlegrounds

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Procrastination Isn’t Laziness. It is s Shame. Here is How to Break the Loop

Why you keep putting things off, what it’s really doing to you, and how to start choosing differently

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Are You Addicted to Your Own Self-Loathing?

How we quietly fetishise shame in our bodies, our habits, our money, and our desire.

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The Real Hell You Live In: How Much You Hate How You Feel

Hell is not a biblical punishment you’re sent to, it’s the internal world you create when you hate how you feel.

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Acting In vs Acting Out: The Hidden Mechanics of Shame

Acting in or acting out?

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Recovering from Shame:

Learning to Deserve Love, Safety, and a Life You Can Trust

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How Much You Hate How You Feel

My Three Column Model

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Expanding Your Window of Tolerance | How to Stop Hitting the “F* It” Button

Very occasionally you might meet a normal person.

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