Healing Toxic Shame Archives - Shannon Colleary

05 Jul The 1st Step: Get Out of Isolation to End a Bad Relationship (Here’s How)

Posted at 06:09h in Dating & Recovery Articles, Healing Toxic Shame, Relationship & Recovery Tools by Shannon 3 Comments

Why Georgia Can't Quit Her Toxic Guy "I know he's bad for me. I know he won't change. There are times I'm so sick of him, I don't even want to see him anymore. Then why is it that the thought of permanently breaking up with...

20 Oct The Secret Hack to Tame your Shame

Posted at 18:16h in Dating & Recovery Articles, Healing Toxic Shame by Shannon 2 Comments

The clients I work with come from all walks of life. Some are women, some are men. Some are professionals, others unemployed. The youngest is in her 20s, the oldest in his 60s. But there's one common thread that connects them. Shame. Shame that they're in or...

08 May She Was a Successful Child Actor With Painful Demons; How She Slayed Them and Redefined Success

Posted at 18:41h in Dating & Recovery Articles, Healing Toxic Shame, Inner Child Work by Shannon 0 Comments

Recovering from Sexual Abuse

Several years ago when I was at a particularly low point in my life; I was a failing actress in an emotionally abusive relationship, one woman's story changed the way I defined success. For seven years I was an active participant in the Al-Anon 12-step program which I credit for helping me completely turn my life around, and it was in one of these meetings that I heard Julia's (a pseudonym) story. Julia was a fair-skinned, strawberry blonde with hidden eyes and bitten down nails. She always sat in the back of this thirty to fifty person meeting. I rarely noticed her because her withdrawn, tomb-silent energy made her invisible; almost a cypher in a room of messy, emotional, larger-than-life people fighting to recover from volatile, dramatic pasts.