Episode 285 - The Story You're Living

Welcome back. This week, we're continuing our series on Curt Thompson's The Soul of Shame, and today we're in Chapter 4 — "The Story of Shame You Are Living." Thompson's argument here is that shame isn't just something that happens to you, it's a tool doing something specific: distracting you from a truer story about who you are.We'll get into how shame actually works backward — because shame actually shows up before the story you build to explain it, not after. We'll look at why so much of what shame narrates was never even put into words in the first place. We'll talk about how the same mechanism running in a marriage runs in a war. And we'll bring in some of the research standing behind Thompson's argument, from narrative identity to affect labeling.Thanks for being here. [email protected]