One of the reasons that I focused on shame this week is because of how amazed I have been at its capacity to suck emotion, thoughts and visceral feelings into an abyss. At the heart of good enough emotional functioning is a kind of relatedness with oneself that allows for a fluidity of internal and external perception. These are not fixed states of course, meaning, we all move in and out of attunement with ourselves and others. The reason that shame can be such a killer in relationships is that it will act as a firewall to being able to express helplessness and to ask for comfort.

 

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Lastly, the silence piece is crucial. We have a tendency to project our own stories when there is silence. Even when there isn’t silence it can be hard to temper our narratives which is why truly connecting with another person is a fleeting experience, we need our own psychic skin to go through the world and that involves rigid ideas that we have formulated throughout a lifetime. Silence can amplify these stories, so when someone is not communicating how they feel, ones ideas about them can snowball and this phenomenon is rampant in relationships. How many times has a couple walked through my door and said “We have to work on our communication?”. Organizing and sorting through our own emotional landscapes and trying to uncover whether we are carrying unconscious shame can be a very productive exercise and make it easier to tame misunderstanding in many aspects of our lives.

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