@thepottymouthguru: If you feel embarrassed for existing, being enthusiastic, posting, speaking up, or showing your personality… that’s usually not confidence issues. But it is shame conditioning. Your nervous system learned somewhere that visibility = humiliation. So now every time your authentic self shows up, your brain goes: 🚨 ABORT MISSION. TOO MUCH. TOO WEIRD. TOO CRINGE. 🚨 It’s internalized shame trying to keep you “safe.” Healing isn’t becoming less cringe. Healing is stopping the self-abandonment every time shame shows up. #shame #nervoussystem #HealingJourney #authenticself #traumarecovery