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Why It’s So Vital that We Speak about Our Shame & Mistakes Aloud to Someone We Trust – Step 5

From The Projector – “I spoke with my sponsor and a therapist. I had to speak about how ashamed of going back to my social circle.. it is so embarrassing at this point because im new again.” (On being ashamed)

Today’s SFZ

“Be not asham-
ed of mistakes and
thus make them crimes.”

– Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)

Shame – Evelyn “Champagne” King (6:24)

Let the Sunshine In – the movie version of Hair  un-ashamed (5:41)

Sunshine Adagio Meditation in D minor (3:40)

What mistakes have you been ashamed to admit, lately?

The Sun
by Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–

do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

Zonr pod on shame

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  1. The projector

    I spoke with my sponsor and a therapist . I had speak about how ashme of going back to my social circle.. it is so embarrassing at this point because im new again.
    But I’m getting more omfortable acepting that i have work to do on myself and do mot deviate from my main goal right now which is staying sober..

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