Where Words Can’t Reach: Shedding Light on our Dark Side

On this show John will talk about when we hear the word “betrayal” we usually think about sexual infidelity but there are other kinds of betrayal and there are two kinds of agreements that are often broken, which can be experienced as a betrayal.

Shame is a ubiquitous human experience. It is used in every culture to socialize children and to protect the tribe. Healthy shame has purpose, function and teaching us how to thrive in community.

This show will look at the dark side of being a leader and promoting recruitment to hundreds of people into an organization that treated women like sex slaves.

In response to a difficult situation, our nervous system tends to do one of three things to survive. Fight – Flee or Freeze.

Through my training with Virginia Satir and Richard Schwartz I have learned how to help people access their Self and to facilitate the healing of wounded parts by the Self.

Learn about the three faces of Shame:

1.Emotionally dysregulated.

2.Feeling in deficit.

3. Dissociated from their own shame and vulnerability

This episode will look at what shame is and how to use your creativity to transform it.

This episode will explore addiction and the internal experiences of people who have lived in this kind of darkness, cast aside by family, friends and society both emotionally and physically.

This second part of the show will center around the healing process with shame. The truth that we are injured in relationship and therefore heal in relationship, but not necessarily in the relationship that injured us.

This episode will look at the development of shame through insecure attachment and trauma.