Top Highlights

• Like any child not getting what he or she wants, we act out. That’s the reactive part.
• Shame is crippling. When it rules our life, we live either in the compensated or in the collapsed state. In both cases, we cannot come home.
• The very first step in healing the wound of shame is to start with understanding, awareness and acceptance.
• But shock hits us at such a deep level in our psyche that it affects our physiology; the way our body reacts to the outside. To be sure, shame also affects our energy, but shock seems to go to our deepest core.
• Everyone’s shock symptoms are different. But there is definitely a common symptom list;