Shame Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/shame/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:10:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png Shame Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/shame/ 32 32 Trauma and the Shame Spiral https://heatherhayes.com/trauma-and-the-shame-spiral/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5753 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can cause a wide range of adverse emotions such as fear, anger, anxiety, and sadness. These emotions are common, natural responses to a traumatic experience. As time passes, these feelings will often gradually diminish as the survivor heals. However, shame is one emotion that tends to emerge gradually after the […]

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]]> The Vicious Cycle of Substance Use Disorder, Promiscuity and Shame https://heatherhayes.com/the-vicious-cycle-of-substance-use-disorder-promiscuity-and-shame/ Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:35:48 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2458 Shame Versus Guilt Shame is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “an uncomfortable feeling of guilt”[1]. It is a universal emotion which has been felt, in varying degrees, by everyone on the planet. Guilt, shame and Substance Abuse are all interlinked. Shame has been shown to impact negatively on recovery[2] and has been linked to […]

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