How the shame you learned as a child is keeping you from HEALING and having the life you want.
Imagine that you visit a doctor to be treated for a poison ivy rash. A month later, you return and say the poison ivy is back, the treatment didn’t work. The doctor calmly tells you that you must have exposed yourself to poison ivy again. You deny this and become angry, claiming that you would never expose yourself to poison ivy on purpose.
The doctor tells you that you must be doing it and you are not aware of it.
Upon hearing this, you become angrier and angrier. It doesn’t make sense. Why would you do this to yourself and then go to the doctor for help? Obviously, the doctor doesn’t know what (s)he is talking about. You become more frustrated. You seek more and more specialists, hypnotists, healers, Reiki practitioners, but the poison ivy keeps coming back.
There is a dark secret about yourself, something you’ve been doing, but you refuse to let yourself see. Every day when you walk home from work, you take a shortcut through dense foliage so you can avoid having people see where you live. You have a deep shame of where you live, and this shortcut gives you the security you need. Unfortunately, this ‘shortcut’ is full of poison ivy.
