A Personal Perspective: The funny thing that shame does? It lies to you. It tells you that you're so terrible. And that you must be the worst of the worst.
Presented with the chance to help someone else challenge her shame, my resolve to hide my own disappeared.My husband and I moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, from Dallas in 1993. We'd been married for three years; the move was going to complicate things as we were in the midst oftreatment. But we readily adapted to frequent trips to Dallas for treatment. And miraculously, we were lucky enough to have a son through in vitro fertilization a year later.
While I was still combatting regret and shame, it began to dawn on me that my own emotional growth didn't lie in carrying around shame for the rest of my life. In trying to hide things I'd done or the path I'd managed to walk. What sticks in my mind is the picture of a client, tears streaming down her face as she buried her head in her hands. It was her first session, and she'd only begun to fill me in on the details of why she was there.. I cannot believe it. I was so sure that this second time was different. That I was different. That he was different. I don't even know how I'm going to tell other people.I responded the way I would normally, letting her cry.
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