Shaming yourself for what you’ve been through, really isn’t the way to go. You have to give yourself compassion and understanding. You’ve been through a lot. Its okay to admit that to yourself and feel those feelings. Feeling is how we heal and release.
More than that, though, it’s important to be able to meet yourself where you’re at. If you want to be able to stand naked (figure of speech) in front of someone and them be able to accept you fully without judgment, you need to be willing to do that for yourself. Otherwise, you might have a hard time believing that person is being sincere and you may stay closed off.. its a fear of being voulnerable that a lot of us have, due to a fear of being rejected or being abandoned.
Even if they abandon us, though, we shouldn’t abandon ourselves. And think about it. Do you really want someone you can’t be your full self with? Someone that leaves when things get real? A lot of time, we trigger things in eachother. Like if someone has an issue with something you’re doing, they see that part of themselves in you, and they don’t like it.
Now do we face it and heal through it, or do we run and hide? I will be the first to say that running from what we feel doesn’t work. It doesnt solve the issue, its still gonna be there. It’ll just show up another way, through another person or situation. What we have to do, is consciously choose, to look directly at whatever the thing is that bothers us and what feelings it brings up, and accept them. Im scared because.. I’m angry because.. you have to talk to yourself just like a friend was talking to you. You have to give validation to those things you’re feeling. Why do you feel that way? Did something happen in your past? A lot of the time, it goes back to childhood or just mindsets that have been passed down the family line. Follow those feelings down and get to the root. That root needs so much love