To build resilience and flexibility in your nervous system, and create a felt sense of safety. When your system is stuck in threat, it’s not a mindset issue—it’s a survival response. This part of the work helps you gently shift out of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn by bringing your system into regulation. You’ll learn how to reconnect with your True Self, access your prefrontal cortex (your brain’s center for clarity and choice), and build a foundation of internal safety. Because healing can’t happen when your system still feels like it’s in danger.
To shift out of stress and reconnect with your inner wisdom. Heart coherence is a powerful, science-backed way to regulate your system by aligning your heart, brain, and emotions. When you learn to access it, you send a signal of safety through your entire body—allowing you to feel calm, grounded, and connected to yourself. This isn’t woo. It’s neuroscience. And it creates the conditions your system needs to heal from shame.
You’ll learn the step-by-step process for working with your Inner Critics, and learn about the 7 different types of Inner Critics. You’ll also work with your other Protector Parts related to Shame, like the People-Pleasing Part, the Anxious Part, the Numbing Part, the Anger Part, the Overthinking Part, the Ruminating Part, etc… This work helps you recognize those Parts, understand what they’ve been trying to protect you from, and support them in letting go of the extreme roles they’ve been stuck in. You’ll stop being taken over by self-criticism, spiraling thoughts, and anxiety — because you’ll learn how to take those Protector Parts out of the extreme roles they’ve been placed in..
Self-Compassion is necessary for healing, as you can’t heal shame by shaming yourself. This part of the work teaches you how to meet yourself with compassion, even when Parts of you feel hard to love. \ Because true resilience comes from safety—not pressure. And when your system finally receives the care it needed all along, it stops bracing for attack. You’ll learn even more tools to connect to your True Self and nurture the Parts of you that needs it.
To rewire the beliefs that keep you stuck in shame and self-doubt. Most of your self-critical thoughts aren’t actually you—they’re echoes of past experiences. This part of the work helps you identify and untangle those old belief patterns, so you can stop automatically believing the shame story.
To feel safe with others and show up authentically in relationships. When you’ve been hurt, rejected, or abandoned, it impacts how you show up with others. You might expect rejection, shut down during conflict, or stay silent to avoid being too much. This part of the framework helps you more deeply understand your attachment patterns, and nurture the Parts of yourself that have been hurt – which is the root of the shame.