Understanding Shame In Your Clients’ Lives Shame doesn’t leave marks, it doesn’t leave bruises, you don’t even know you have it. Shame shapes your clients’ lives and the lives of their children. It is passed down from parent to child unknowingly and it can be devastating. This clientadvocate training helps you understand the impact of shame in an adult woman’s life and the impact it has on the child she is raising. The series will train you to go deeper as you guide your client in this crucial issue. This training unlocks the Parenting program, “Parenting Without Shame,” that helps your client understand how she passes shame on to her children. Lesson 1: Blame, Shame, and History – 14min. All of life is grounded in truth and lies. The clients you work with live lives that are filled with lies that scream their insecurities, failings, mistakes, and inadequacies. And their lifestyles reflect it. But did you know that their parents profoundly influenced their attitudes, emotional health, and their subsequent behavior as adults? When you know these effects, and the shame that accompanies them, you will be able to understand and help your client much better. Lesson 2: Learning What We Live, Living What We Learn – 15min. Shame, a soul-deep sense that you are flawed, is like a Velcro strip on your heart. Every interaction has the risk of sticking firmly to that Velcro. A mistake sticks fast and hard, and harsh words, perceived rejections, or criticisms all go straight to the Velcro of your heart and won’t let go! Lesson 3: Shame’s Impact on Relationships – 15min. The young clients who sit across from you in your center have many lies. They all want to be happy, but those lies come into play when they look for it. They make decisions that complicate and burden their lives further and this only reinforces the shame by which they are bound. They don’t know it, but their decisions reflect it. When you see constant victimhood, sassy bravado, anger, contempt, inability to accept responsibility, criticism, and more, you are seeing the outworking of those lies and the shame that is at their core. Lesson 4: Working Through the Emotions – 20min. When you work with clients, you see their emotional outbursts, reactions, and instability. So, it helps to understand the foundation of these emotional reactions, and how they’re formed. Learn how a parents’ emotional actions and responses (or the lack thereof ) shape how their children learn to respond and interact, whether healthy and appropriately or distorted and dysfunctionally. Lesson 5: Who’s Driving the Car? – 11min. When a child suffers trauma, abuse, neglect, or any of the other terrible things that come out of dysfunctional families, they Advocate Lessons arrest emotionally. As a little girl, she is expected to perform as an adult and shamed when she doesn’t. She is blamed for things wrong in her parents’ lives. She is used by people who should protect her. These circumstances can result in a person who never grows up into an emotionally mature woman. Lesson 6: The Brain and Shame – 14min. To understand shame, you need to understand the way our brains receive and process trauma, how memories are formed, and how God provided the answer in His word! Lesson 7: Taking on the Blame – 15min. Clients often blame themselves for when they were children, not realizing that they were only little children coping in tough situations. Children arrest emotionally when there is trauma and dysfunction. As they grow up, part of a child still lives in them with the fears and the perceptions and their guilt for what was done to them. Their adult impressions of that child are skewed by the feelings they, as a child, experienced with the abuse. This is where truth is so powerful. Lesson 8: Boundaries – 19min. Boundaries are tough, and if you weren’t raised with them, then they are hard to define and understand in your life. But they are important for our health and wellbeing. Personal boundaries define us, our values, Take this course with unlimited users with your BrightCourse subscription. Try it free for 30 days! Free with BrightCourse subscriptions. www.BrightCourse.com (800) 767-7258 Br ightTraining: Courses to create strong and heal thy center-envi ronments . Fre with a right ur e su scripti n. ww.BrightCourse.com (8 0) 767-7258
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