Sharing a summary of thoughts from a chat convo with a friend on the subject of shaming:
Shaming is a huge blind spot for people. It’s been accepted for so long—normalized and internalized—that, sometimes, it’s hard to recognize when you’re engaging in it, when someone else is engaging in it, or when you’re the recipient of it—especially from yourself to yourself. To start the work of addressing it, one can only begin with the decision to gently notice and then keep making conscious decisions and taking conscious actions to flip that script from one of judgment to one of compassion.