Healing The Shadow, Releasing Shame and Imposter Syndrome

My take on Imposter Syndrome.

Go gently into this work.

"We experience shame not only through personal invalidation, but also from a culture that devalues our identity. Underneath all of this is always a history of trauma. We have so many wounded among us who carry a great deal of shame. While the initial escape from abusive organizations and individuals often brings respite, unless we acknowledge our shame, we often remain controlled by it. What happens on the individual level is therefore expressed in our communities as a whole. We need to confront shame at both these levels. Shame keeps us silent. We fear that everyone will think we’re idiots or crazy if we speak up. No one will believe us. That's shame talking. Shame is a specific type of fear that's related to having our sense of self violated by others. But this fear is also spread through societal views of what's acceptable. Think of shame as a disease-infected tree that is weighed down with a variety of rotting fruit. In the garden of your life, this tree draws out all your energy and keeps you from nourishing anything beautiful." - from Entering Hekate's Cave (Chapter 10 - Borborophorba).

Get the complete list of the symptoms HERE.

Caliban and The Witch by Silvia Federici
Brené Brown's TED Talk on shame.

I highly recommend reading ⁠this article⁠ from the Harvard Business Review by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey

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