She started to shudder from the inside. The air went still as we sat there. Something big was shifting. She shuddered some more. Tiny, involuntary tremors rising from somewhere deep. And as we sat together in that stillness, I realised something wasn’t shifting. Something was emerging.

Almost all self-improvement, self-regulation, self-development courses are actually the puppet masters of systemic shame. (Especially for those socialised as women.)

If I were to deepen into my work and become more aligned over the coming months, this is what I would do. Spoiler alert: I am about to do this. And further spoiler alert: I am fully prepared for this to mean less people want to engage with my work, although I know it holds the key to so much healing. A decade of trauma work and what I discovered key to so much healing). Over the past ten years, my work has centred around trauma and post-traumatic growth. Mostly with individ

The root of shame is in the body. We may catch it sometimes when we notice it rearing it's head in the conscious realms.

I get asked why shame is so hard to heal from very often. And there are a lot of different answers to this question but here is one of the biggest reasons why.

I often get asked: What is the difference between shame and trauma? Here is how I respond.

Some thoughts for the therapists, coaches and facilitators looking to work with shame at a somatic level.