Confronting and Letting Go of Toxic Shame
Cristina Lambert
Some of us grew up in families where we felt invisible and unimportant, regardless of what we tried to do to get attention and affection. Some of us had terrible experiences with people who should have loved and protected us, but instead hurt us and exploited us. Some of us were bullied, rejected, and ridiculed for things that we couldn’t help, by peers or by people old enough to know better. The painful memories from these experiences stayed with us in the form of toxic shame. Toxic shame hides in our hearts. It tells us that we’re not good enough, that there is something wrong with us, that we’ll never...
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