Dr. Aziz explains why embarrassing moments become funny over time. The shift happens when you stop seeing the incident as proof you're unlovable or don't belong, and start viewing it as just something that happened, separate from your worth.
Fascinatingly, the same thing could be embarrassing now, but then a month from now, it's amusing. Or you share with a friend and all of a sudden you're like, oh my God, that's so embarrassing. You're laughing, right? So what is the difference? Well, I would say the core shift is that story of this therefore means something bad about me. It touches on that old story of unlovability, insufficiency, not belonging, not worthy, all that stuff. Stuff is not touched on. And wouldn't that be liberating and relieving if that terrain expanded? And you're weak at work, with socially, romance, love, more and more of your life could expand into this doesn't mean something about me and my worth.
