How does shame impact relationships and emotional well-being?
Answer
Shame can lead to a pervasive sense of separateness and loneliness, even when individuals are surrounded by those who love and care for them. It interferes with authentic relationships by fostering a fear of vulnerability and being seen and feelings of unworthiness of love and connection. This emotional barrier often results in the suppression of emotions, making it difficult for individuals to express themselves fully and honestly. In contemporary society, many people carry shame related to their emotions, further complicating their ability to form genuine connections.
Shira Sameroff, LCSW, has decades of experience working with people of diverse identities, ages, and life stories in a wide array of settings. Her professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development, college teaching, coaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering, and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency.
Shira weaves together a range of therapeutic healing modalities, including IFS, Hakomi, and other somatic, nature-based, and anti-oppressive practices. She offers professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including shame, group facilitation, supervision, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, tending to self as a practitioner, and trauma-informed and oppression-informed therapy.
The heart of her work is helping humans reconnect with themselves, each other, and the natural world to enable deep individual and collective healing. Her approach is collaborative, intuitive, and full of heart and is rooted in her own lived experience of healing, learning, and emerging.
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