How I Heal My Shame

April 30, 2024Kirstin Hotelling Zona

I felt divided: light-filled on the outside, a thorn of wrongness so dark as to make me, simply, bad—way down on the inside.

It wasn’t until well into my adulthood that I learned the name for my secret is shame. As is always the case, we create circumstances that become evidence of our unconscious/conscious beliefs—opportunities to see, and heal, what resides within.

I created such a mirror in a very painful romantic relationship (not my ex-husband), one I went back to over and over until I hit rock-bottom, when my healing journey took root in earnest.

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