🪞 UnShaming Reflections · UnShaming for Women

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🪞 UnShaming Reflections

We tend to think of shame as something deeply personal. And it is, because it lives in our bodies and shapes our identity. But shame didn't start inside us. It was transmitted.

The people in our lives often acted as antennas, picking up cultural messages about worth, emotions, gender, and belonging, and passing them on without even knowing it. When we were hurt, they responded through that same conditioned lens.

This week's reflection:

🌟 What is one message you received growing up about who you should be, how you should feel, or what was acceptable? Where do you think that message originally came from, not just the person who said it, but the culture or system behind it? And how does that message still show up in how you treat yourself today?

Sometimes just seeing the origin of a belief loosens its grip.

xo, Amanda

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