An Alternative Strategy For Healing Toxic Shame

An Alternative Strategy For Healing Toxic Shame By Bart Sharp Toxic shame is when we are raised in a home where we are placed in situations that we are controlled in an abusive way/s that create our self image as less than.  We create us in a false way to be able to fit into [...]

Our Personal Growth Can Have Darkness Before There Is Light

Our Personal Growth Can Have Darkness Before There Is Light   By Bart Sharp   Sometimes when we feel we are stuck in our personal growth we are close to breaking through to something greater in our therapeutic progress.  It may feel like we are totally in our limitations when actually we are making great [...]

Healing Shame Connects Us To Our Essence, Joy

Healing Shame Connects Us To Our Essence, Joy By Bart Sharp The whole nature of shame is that we were told in some way, verbally or non-verbally that we were less than creating the invalidation of the great beings that we knew we were as infants or children.  Babies come into this world knowing intrinsically [...]

Overcoming Shame To Become Our Own Power

Overcoming Shame To Become Our Own Power By Bart Sharp Shame is a limiting belief within all of us that helps us recognize we have limitations.  However when we are raised in homes that are dysfunctional and operate from a viewpoint of toxic shame it leads us to anger, depression, various addictive behaviors and more.  [...]

The Secret Debilitating Presence Of Toxic Shame, Part Two

The Secret Debilitating Presence Of Toxic Shame, Part Two By Bart Sharp The dampening of the flame that toxic shame is associated with can be created during various stages of an infant’s life.  Some children are shamed in every stage of development where as others are limited to a few stages.  As the shame is [...]

The Secret Debilitating Presence Of Toxic Shame

The Secret Debilitating Presence Of Toxic Shame By Bart Sharp When we are in a home environment where were we are continually made to feel lesser than, belittled and/or abused the child experiences toxic shame.  Toxic shame can happen in many forms from an alcoholic neglectful parent, abusive father, dominating siblings and many more.  The [...]

What To Do When Times Are Tough, Managing Our Feelings, Part Two

What To Do When Times Are Tough, Managing Our Feelings, Part Two By Bart Sharp The lie about negative emotions (especially our past ones) that people believe is that the pain can hurt us.  So many of us were taught this as children to avoid our feelings or get through them as quickly as possible. [...]

Busting Out Of Painful Relationships, Letting Go Of Our Blaming Behaviors

I met Titus a few months ago as he came to me to let go of what he called “his insane anger towards his father, the most painful relationship of his life”.

Alternative Strategies For An Anger Management Quiz

Is your anger passive or active? If it is passive, in other words the anger you experience is for most part not expressed but held inside of you. Instead of taking an anger management quiz read the below story and receive some effective tools in how to release your suppressed anger.

Anger Management Test, Part Three

Anger Management Test, Part Three By Bart Sharp This anger management test is the third and final in a series of articles designed to stimulate our own perspectives in how we manage anger.  Anger management is an area of living that has no specific process in how we manage our anger or for that matter [...]

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