How to Stop Abandoning Yourself: The Secret to a Shameless, Unapologetic Life — Annalie Howling

Welcome to Permission, a space for the conversations that ask us to come home to ourselves.For the first episode, I sat down with Annalie Howling, author of Unapologetic and a trauma specialist. We talk about shame, self-abandonment, and what it actually means to come home to ourselves.In this conversation:Why shame is a liar.The difference between guilt and shame.The inner critic as the custodian of your comfort zone.Fawning and why it carries the most shame of all trauma responses.Pleasure as self-responsibility.Self-compassion as the cure.For the woman ready to stop carrying what was never hers to carry.Follow @permission.pod and @shadiaakle on Instagram.Annalie's book Unapologetic is available on Amazon.