"One of the ways that we work through shame is by sharing our story. If shame is the message of I am not good enough, it tells us that we are alone. That no one else experiences this feeling in the way that I do. It's isolating. It isolates us. So when we share our story with, as Brene Brown says, with people who have earned the right to hear it, that's where we find that shame really has no place to go because the point becomes a moot point at that point. When we share our story with people who are able to receive it and to honor it and to say, hey, me too, or I get that, or I know what that feels like, we realize that we're no longer isolated. We realize that we're no longer alone in that experience. And the loneliness starts to dissipate. The isolation starts to dissipate. And we start to see the seed of connection begin to grow. And that's why safe spaces are so incredibly powerful and needed and necessary to keep people alive. We don't need a lot of people. It's not like a quantity thing. It's really, a lot of research will show we just need one. We just need one safe space that we can be genuinely us. But safety is that key component. We can't just share our story with anybody and everybody. Or we can, but we have to be careful on what we perceive of that. If people give us comments and feedback, then we have to see where that's coming from and do this practice of putting up a force field to not take on others' perspectives that aren't ours. If others aren't experiencing or haven't been through, we have experienced or have been through our own self. It's a tricky spot. But sharing our story is a core component of coming back home to you, of acknowledging your truth and of letting your truth be present and valid and whole on its own."