The Destructive Power of Shame: Dealing with Shame by Externalizing Shame

Shame can be difficult to release from our identity. Shame exists with several cognitive distortions (negative thoughts with a funhouse mirror version of reality). The cognitive distortions of shame include “All or Nothing” (either all of this or none of that), “Disqualifying the positive,” (nothing good counts because of something bad), “Emotional Reasoning” (I feel […]