shame

“I found an interesting hypothesis that the fastest way to make somebody feel okay about what they're ashamed of is to make them feel proud about it. For example, the path to from shame to normalcy is through pride which has obviously used and misused in differ…”

“The thing about shame is it's a freeze response. It's like an animal defense state. Like, we talk a lot about fight or flight, but there's other animal defense states, too, right? And one of them is freeze, right? And so if someone's frozen, you can't, like, g…”