A reflective talk on recognizing the shame you carry without noticing it. The speaker uses a backpack metaphor for self-rejection and suggests that trust and confidence start with awareness, offering the question "How can I shift my shame to trust?" as a path forward.
Can you find a place where you carry shame if you can't find it? Recognize the shame of not finding shame because it's there for all of us, often underneath our awareness. And we carry a backpack full of self rejection, adding to it, secretly hoping no one notices, including ourselves. Here's the kicker. Trust and confidence starts with being aware. What can you think, do or communicate to address the shame? Shame doesn't want you to grow, but simple acts of growth with awareness of the shame is the ultimate expansion to trust and confidence. Asking the loving question, how can I shift my shame to trust? Encourage can you give yourself this gift.
