Bsbwor504 Final Project

When studying shame, Brené Brown (2006) found that many people brought up feelings of being trapped. These same people felt as though others had the same feelings of being trapped but still had difficulty sharing these feelings. The areas that most women had shame about were their body image, sexuality, parenting, their job, religion, aging, speaking out, surviving trauma, family, and motherhood (Brown, 2006) These same topics were the most common in the sessions I sat in on and in group. Many counselors at Mindful Soul specialized in areas such a trauma, parenting, and family due to how often they are the root causes of a clients visit.

An effective planning will help children to participate in a safe and supportive environment.To provide good opportunities for children it is important to maintain a balance between

material into smaller amounts of information to help her avoid feeling overwhelmed” (p. 63). This compares to my point in being hopeful. I was hopeful for my dad to get better and to get through his condition, as Beatty had hoped her patient (Lauren) would get through her challenge about being overwhelmed with her child. I believe nurses did to maintain a hopeful and optimistic attitude to support their

It's hard to imagine yourself ever being vulnerable, but everyone will face it at some point in their life some sooner than others. Benji Wilson was the number one basketball player in the country around the Michael Jordan era. Everyone in the community knew Benji they looked at him as he was the Messiah, or the ticket out of the hood. Benji faced is vulnerable moment way too young, when he was just 17 his life was cut short after being shot while walking home with his girlfriend one afternoon. After watching Benji his vulnerability and added pressers were exposed after becoming a young father, being labeled the messiah and hearing Billy Moore's side of the story.

Speaking of my own personal journey of healing that I am currently walking though, one of the most difficult reactions for me is feeling the guilt and shame. Mark Laser (presentation) stated that “trauma shame becomes an identity”. In my own experience I find this to be very true. The reason I believe that this would be the most difficult for a trauma victim to deal with is because it really does become a part of who they are. One of my identities is being a mother and a wife. I could not imagine my life not being those two things even if God were to take my family because it is a part of who I am. The same would apply to trauma shame. This becomes are part of who the victim is and to separate from this identity is

This step is the hardest for me. I think it is the hardest step for many people. There is something about becoming that vulnerable that is not appeasing to most people including myself. There is always that fear that I may be telling the wrong person. I think I can trust, but when I do they laugh or tell others. It is important to share with the right people. Someone that will give you empathy and dissolve the painful feeling. When we trust the right person this stage of dealing with shame can be very powerful. It took me a few times to find the one person that would listen to me and help me through my problems of shame. Once I found that person my feelings of shame seemed to disappear. When those feelings come back I know I can go back to them and they will help

The Centurions Shame To explore the attributional theory of shame one must first determine whether shame is internal, external, specific, or global. What mitigating factor contributed to the shame inflicted upon this individual? What external and internal factor trigger such feelings of shame?

Kaufman mentioned shame profile, shame spiral, and shame experience. Although, shame is excruciating, it may cause societal enabling emotions to arise as a result of related and non-related imagery of a person’s standards and actions. Since shame stimulates from a psychosomatic, an individual may decide to commit or connect to a certain course of action. Generally, it outlines reason for the inner functions that causes a paralyzing state. Typically emotions from depression and unhappiness causes shame to affect a person’s need, drive, and interpersonal shame. Distress and fears often affects how an individual’s level of self-esteem, capability, and interactions develop or begin to diminish when these scenes emerge through having a sense of

You now might be thinking “welp, this must be the end of the human race” but you know what, it’s not! Who would've guessed. The fact is the repressing emotions is harmful, but not inevitable. There are many simple ways to express your emotion that people tend to ignore. For example, Art! I mean, come on. Also listening to music, going on walks, and writing all have heaps of evidence that shows it relieves stress. However, the most important thing to do when you are avoiding suppressed emotions is to acknowledge them. Yeah, the feeling of shame might not be the best feeling in the world, but it's by far not the worst.

Describe how you feel you have been shamed or felt humiliated by significant others. Think about a specific incident from your childhood in which you felt shame.

When I am feeling down, I depend on technology to alleviate it. I listen music on Pandora and Spotify app to alleviate my negative emotions. I take pictures of myself and post it on Instagram to boost my confidence. I use Netflix and games app to distract and cheer me up.

I reinforced and intensified my emotional & spiritual walls with my own shame and guilt.

The question I want to ask is how does the experience of shame and guilt differentiate, and why might understanding the difference be helpful to us? My personal connection to this that I grew up in foster care and it took me years of hard work to drop the bag of bricks that was labeled 'shame ' I had been carrying around. I always wanted to be enough when I was growing up and now I know that I am. Understanding these two emotions helped get me here. Shame and guilt while closely related, have differences that are important to understand. There are some features shared by shame and guilt that are important to know before we go picking them apart. In the book on the matter, Shame and Guilt: Emotions and Social Behavior (Tangney and

You ask one to be vulnerable for you? But do you ever stop and think what ones feels when they hear that word? Well, when I hear that word I think of a gazelle running for its life in the middle of a never ending, wide open field. I think of one single animal scared out of its mind with a lion on its tail just waiting for that right moment when it stumbles. And then I think of the slow decent to the ground when it does fall. The lion sinking its teeth into it and ripping apart everything that made it look and feel like a gazelle, and then finally puncturing his long canines into the heart. Just like that, it’s gone. I was that gazelle once and I was torn apart as someone told me my soul wasn’t righteous enough and my personality wasn’t small enough, my mind wasn’t brilliant enough, and my heart wasn’t worth the trouble. And from then on, I vowed to always be the lion, and I built walls tall enough and strong enough that no one could get through. Barriers I myself forgot how to break down. So, don’t tell me to be vulnerable for you because I can’t even remember how to do it for myself.

Heartbreak. Not many people have discovered heartbreak before, but the ones who have understand it is emotionally exhausting. Spending day after day crying, going days without eating or sleeping can be mentally demeaning. These things together can be described as vulnerability. When one gets older, they act as if being vulnerable is a bad thing, and try’s to hide it. It is in fact the opposite, when an adult is vulnerable, it can help them have better relationships and help them have more empathy for situations. The only thing is, vulnerability is the biggest challenge to being a healthy, productive adult.