12 Minute Meditation

Transform Shame to Self-Trust


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Shame is one of the most complex and difficult human emotions to experience and process. 

This week, we’re refreshing a meditation from Dr. Patricia Rockman, who offers a practice to meet shame with courage, tenderness, and curiosity. The more we can sit with these difficult emotions, the more we build resilience, self-knowledge, and self-trust—which are the most powerful natural antidotes to shame.

Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP, FCFP is a family physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the senior director of Education and Clinical Services at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto. Rockman is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Family Medicine, cross appointed to Psychiatry. She has extensive experience practicing individual psychotherapy, leading therapy groups, and training healthcare providers in mindfulness-based interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and change management for stress reduction. She is a freelance writer, yoga teacher, and meditation practitioner.

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online at Mindful.org next week. 

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Show Notes

Find more from Dr. Patricia Rockman here.

Go Deeper

Shame is a universal and challenging human experience. If you’d like to learn more about where it comes from and how mindfulness can help heal the wounds of shame, these three articles can help:

  • Feeling Lonely? 4 Ways to Release Shame and Build Healthy Relationships
  • Tame Your Money Shame
  • The Downward Spiral of Shame

For more practice, here is another Meditation for Working with Shame.

And more from Mindful here:

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