I’m feeling I have this high intensity happening, and I’m noticing the sensations, and I’m orienting, but now what?
Call Tag: shame
I often experience overwhelming grief, shame, shutdown, or experience a feeling in the center of my chest like a vice grip clamping down in mid-conversation, and or in social situations. When this happens, it’s extremely difficult for me to attend or even get viable sentences out. Then I feel more shame for being unable to engage and enjoy, and it becomes a vicious cycle. If I’m not able to remove myself to take a quick break or reset, how do I manage this in the moment?
Self assaulting shame versus personal responsibility. Example. How can I truly be okay with… I started binge eating because I couldn’t handle the feelings toward my parents and not feel, oh my God, I was so pathetic to not be able to simply say what I wanted and I had to resort to chocolate or I have anxiety issues. And while I’m okay with not blaming my parents for never making me feel safe, it leads to feeling I was so stupid to think that they hated me when they loved me, but were not able to give me what I needed.
So, many questions to do with different things around shame and disgust. A couple things that were in common with these questions were people talking about experiencing tension in the gut related to shame or humiliation. One who even had gastritis following an incident where they felt really humiliated.
And, then the last thing here, bodywork.
All right. Disgust, aggression, gagging. So, there’s many questions about the, “Ugh,” sort of gagging reflex connected to strong emotion, connected to aggression, connected to disgust.