Part of the human experience is discovering that, in spite of your best efforts, you are flawed, wounded, imperfect. Although you do your best to put forward your best front, behind the scenes there is likely something you feel embarrassed about, maybe even ashamed of. Whatever it is—your appearance, a regret, a disability—shame will try to convince you that you are unworthy of love and belonging as a result. As a result, you will want to hide, runaway, get smaller and smaller and smaller in an attempt to silence shame's voice. But the only way to silence shame is to talk back.
