Exploring More Finding Freedom from Shame | S4E25
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Mar 26, 2025 They explore how shame hijacks identity and damages relationships. They talk about risks of vulnerability, poor listeners, and when help backfires. Practical tools come up: naming shame, journaling, grounding breathwork, and how others can help regulate. They discuss community for men, breaking shame contracts through repentance, and reclaiming identity through faith.
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Name Shame To See It Clearly
- Naming shame creates a bridge between emotion and language that allows you to observe it rather than be consumed by it.
- Michael Thompson says labeling shame connects right-brain feeling to left-brain language and begins separation from it.
Ground Yourself With Breathwork
- Use breathwork and grounding to interrupt fight/flight/freeze and move toward safety in the moment.
- SJ Jennings recommends box breathing and practiced regulation to slow physiological shock responses.
Seventh-Grade Tryout That Lasted Decades
- Michael Thompson recounts missing a crucial layup at seventh-grade tryouts and feeling lasting humiliation that shaped later choices.
- That early shaming drove him to overprepare and avoid situations where he might lose again.
