It’s Not You; It’s Your Trauma
Podcast Episode
Joe delves into the complexities of trauma and how it shapes behaviors, emotions, and relationships. Joe shares his expertise and personal experiences to help listeners understand and overcome their struggles
EP 0037 – Humiliation
Humiliation; being exposed before you’re ready to be exposed. Humiliation brings a vast wave of powerful, uncontrollable emotion that can lead us into a shame spiral and emotional paralysis.
I guarded against humiliation at every moment, in everything I did in life. Not dealing with the emotions of embarrassment, I learned not to feel safe within myself, to have no internal boundaries, and to have no self-protection in guarding against the extremely debilitating feelings of shame that the humiliation triggered.
To overcome humiliation, we need to embarrass ourselves to ourself. By becoming comfortable with being embarrassed, we fear humiliation less and, therefore, slowly healing our hypervigilance, codependency, panic, self-hate, and shame
