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Shame Recovery

If small mistakes feel like proof of something deeper — if embarrassment turns into identity judgment — that’s not sensitivity.

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It’s an overactive internal threat system.

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Shame fuses events with identity.

We separate them.

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The goal isn’t denial.
It’s clarity.

Signs Shame May Be Driving Your Patterns

Shame recovery support may help if you:

  • Feel “not good enough” no matter what you achieve

  • Collapse under criticism

  • Over-apologize frequently

  • Hide parts of yourself in relationships

  • Feel intense embarrassment over small mistakes

  • Avoid opportunities due to fear of exposure

  • Struggle with chronic self-criticism

  • Feel fundamentally flawed

 

Shame often fuels perfectionism and fear of mistakes. If performance pressure is dominant, see our perfectionism program.

What Shame Recovery Focuses On

1. Shame Trigger Mapping

Identify situations that activate core shame narratives.

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2. Internal Voice Repatterning

Reduce or eliminate harsh self-criticism loops.

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3. Self-Confidence In Self-Healing

Practice and gain confidence in your own ability to heal.

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4. Identity Reconstruction

Separate behavior from identity and rebuild grounded self-evaluation.

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Shame frequently connects to low self-esteem — our self-esteem and confidence building program supports this growth.

Guided Shame Recovery Program

The Psychological Foundations program is an 8-week course that provides you with expert guidance as you navigate healing your shame, ensuring that you learn what you need to excel.

 

Here's how the guided program can help you:

  • Expert guidance to ensure that you understand foundational psychological principles

  • Confidence that you are using the methods to heal yourself correctly

  • Less time spent searching for answers or living in confusion

  • Individualized guidance and application

  • A second opinion, we are blind to ourselves and what we don't know

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Let us help you see that your mistakes don't define you.

Shame Recovery Sessions

For clients who want guided help applying the tools in individual sessions, sessions focus on:

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  1. Identifying core shame narratives

  2. Reducing or eliminating shame triggers

  3. Competency building

  4. ​Life restructuring

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Sessions focus on helping acknowledge codependent areas and building competency in reducing relationship-based fears.

Other Connections To Codependency

Shame often appears most strongly in close relationships, where vulnerability feels risky.

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Our relationship healing support program addresses repeating relational dynamics and communication patterns shaped by shame.
 

Shame can also fuel people-pleasing and over-responsibility. Explore our people-pleasing and boundary setting program to strengthen limits and reduce approval-seeking.

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For many people, shame patterns connect to earlier relational wounds or emotional injuries.

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Our trauma support program focuses on stabilization and trigger regulation when shame reactions are rooted in past experiences.

Important Reframe
Shame Is Learned, Not Inherent

Shame is often a learned response to:

  • Repeated criticism

  • Emotional invalidation

  • Unstable attachment

  • High performance environments

  • Social comparison

 

It can be unlearned through structured awareness, emotional regulation, and consistent identity rebuilding.

Shame Recovery In Salt Lake City & Online

The shame recovery program and structured sessions are available for clients in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, as well as through the guided app-based course accessible anywhere.

Rebuild Stable Self-Worth

Start the guided shame recovery course or schedule a consultation to create your structured self-worth plan.

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