The good news is, the more we realize that people are being shamed for the same thing, the less powerful the shame becomes. So what’s our advice? If you’re being shamed about something, don’t keep it to yourself. Secrecy feeds shame. When released into the open air, shame loses its power. Own your feelings, thoughts, opinions, viewpoints, and self-worth. To feel shame, you must relinquish ownership of those things. Which is easy if you never felt true ownership over them in the first place. But how do we lose ownership of the very things that make us who we are?
