Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Healing your shame/guilt/cringe from the past | Hot tip - all parts of YOU are lovable!

15 Dec 2025 · 2 min

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In this guided meditation, the speaker invites listeners to close their eyes and visualize a past moment when they felt shame, guilt, embarrassment, or other dark emotions. The listener is instructed to approach that younger version of themselves, give them a big, loving hug, and verbally affirm their worth. The exercise then encourages a compassionate dialogue: asking the past self why they feel the way they do, identifying the specific emotion (hurt, fear, loneliness, etc.), and offering acceptance and love. The speaker emphasizes that all experiences provide learning, that there is no "good" or "bad" situation, and that healing the emotional wound from the past releases its hold on the present, thereby healing the heart now.

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I want you to close your eyes and I want you to picture the situation or the moment or the time when you felt, um, any of the dark feelings, the black feelings, the, the guilt, the shame, the like embarrassment or whatever it is. So I want you to picture yourself in that time. And now I want you as you now to walk, to walk up to that version of you. And well, you, this is your dialogue with you. So you can start by, I would probably give you a hug, like, oh my God, I might cry, but I would just go up and get like, in your mind, just give yourself at that time in that situation, a massive hug, like a big hug and just like nuzzle in and just really like, you're loved. You tell that version of you how loved they are. It doesn't matter the situation, whatever happened, it doesn't matter. They are loved. That person in that situation is loved. And there's always— there's no good and bad situations because we get learnings from them. So, and then maybe you want to talk to that, that version of you in that situation and maybe ask her, what do you think? Why do you think you feel like this? Like, what's making you feel so bad? And then let her tell you in back then used words the reason that she feels bad about that. And then maybe take a peripheral vision of the situation and see, was she hurt? Was she scared? Was she lonely? Was she feeling unloved? Was she feeling like— what actual emotion was it at the time? Because I think that you'll find that all that person back then just needs some acceptance and some love. And as we all know, the past doesn't matter. So by healing that part of your heart in that past, you're actually healing your heart in the now.