“Like fog over a town, shame roiling through our inner landscape penetrates everywhere and everything, obscures our vision, slows movement to a crawl, dampens desire to do anything except stay warm and dry and wait it out. Unlike fog, though, shame won’t just burn off, lift, or otherwise vanish on its own. We can’t control the weather. We can, however, choose to own the foggy apparitions of shame we carry. Owning the shame as our creation, and a genius one at that, is what invites the fog to lift and WOW, there it is: a life of warm, sunny clarity, with visibility infinite and energy focused on who we are and can become, rather than creeping around obstacles and reinforcing patterns that keep us swirling in circles, searching and grasping for what is there if we only choose to see it.” (Jennifer Hatt)
Another compelling invitation from Jennifer to discover the power of owning it all – the good, the bad and the too-often debilitating inter-generational blanket of shame. In my many years of working with others, I have yet to meet a single person who has been spared this cultural weapon-of-choice for controlling the behaviours of others, that they might seek to control themselves to avoid the deep pain of shame.