Beyond Success

#53: Breaking Free from Sexual Shame: The Hidden Weight You Don't Have to Carry


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Most people, thanks to religious, cultural, or family baggage, carry around the unnecessary burden of toxic sexual shame. Sometimes this isn't even your own shame, it's been passed down through generations under the guise of virtue.

Here's the problem:

Unchecked sexual shame seeps into your relationships, your leadership, and threatens your very fulfillment of life. Even if it was never yours to carry.

That's why it's imperative to lift your burden of sexual shame. Not only will it keep your relationships shallow, but it will also shatter your sense of self-trust and corrode your confidence.

Worst part?

Sexual shame often manifests in the worst possible ways: in compulsions, addictions, secrecy, and self-sabotage.

That's the bad news.

The good news?

You don't have to allow your shame to be your teacher any longer after you listen to this episode.

In today's show, you'll discover how religious, cultural, and family baggage fill you with borrowed shame, how reframing sexual morality can lift your burden of sexual shame, and the consequences of continuing to repress your sexual shadow - and how to integrate it instead.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

  • How sexual morality crushes you under the weight of sexual shame and holds you back from trust, intimacy, and fulfillment (1:11)
  • Why do people carry sexual guilt for decades longer than even theft guilt or murder guilt? (5:41)
  • How toxic shame "oozes" out of you in the form of compulsions, betrayals, and even living a double life (6:38)
  • The corrupted history of sexual morality and how it continues to fill couples with unexplainable shame to this day (9:11)
  • Here's the cold hard truth about why you act one way in public and another in private (11:54)
  • This question helps you reframe sexual morality in a positive way instead of one that fills you with toxic shame (13:37)
  • How your sexual shadow seeps out in addictions, secrecy, and self-sabotage (and how to address it before it shatters your marriage) (19:01)
  • 4 ways to practice sexual morality in a way that eliminates the burden of sexual shame instead of contributing to it (27:35)

For more about David Tian, go here:

https://www.davidtianphd.com/about/

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