A helpful older post on how loosening self judgement and attack may slow down the hard spin cycle of panic.
This is another post inspired by Byron Brown’ book Soul Without Shame. Ever since starting to read about it I have been connecting the dots on so many things, on how John Bradshaw years ago connected addiction and disconnection with the inner child to toxic shame, pointing out how often addicts came from religious or other overly controlled and controlling households where certain feelings and expressions meet with hostility, rejection and shame becoming ‘shame bound’. Shame bound feelings explains a state where you cannot have a feeling such as sadness or anger without also feeling ashamed for the pure fact of having it, you then have a lot of feelings locked up inside that you exist in a deeply problematic relationship with.
Shame becomes internalised in this state of being and feelings can only be had under her cover of night. If we have a lot of anger over stuff that…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 
that was so helpful Deb! Thanks for sharing it I needed to read it! Xx
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I needed to read it again too, since I tend to forget and so often veer back towards judging. hugs ❤
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