Shame

22 articles on shame — expert insights by Kenny Weiss on emotional healing, trauma recovery, and building healthier relationships.

June 8, 2022Authentic Self Cycle

How to Heal Toxic Shame: 7 Steps to Reclaim Your Self-Worth | Kenny Weiss

Toxic shame is the childhood-installed belief that you ARE the problem — not that you made a mistake, but that you are t...

June 1, 2022Authentic Self Cycle

Toxic shame from childhood trauma creates a survival persona — falsely empowered, disempowered, or adapted wounded child...

May 25, 2022Shame

Toxic shame is the internalized belief that you are fundamentally defective, unlovable, and unworthy of authentic connec...

May 14, 2022Authentic Self Cycle

The Worst Day Cycle™ is a four-stage neurochemical loop — Trauma, Fear, Shame, Denial — that forms in childhood and driv...

April 22, 2022Denial

Childhood trauma creates the Worst Day Cycle™ by rewiring your emotional blueprint — the definition of love your nervous...

April 1, 2022Emotional Authenticity

Shame is the third stage of the Worst Day Cycle™ where childhood trauma convinces you “I am the problem.” Le...