Debra Premashakti Alvis – The Shame Spiral, Release Shame and Cultivate Healthy Attachment

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Debra Premashakti Alvis – The Shame Spiral, Release Shame and Cultivate Healthy Attachment

“Who could ever love you?”
“I knew you’d fail.”
Debilitating and complex, shame is among the most destructive of human emotions. Depression, violence, anxiety – it emerges in a variety of ways that are profoundly damaging to your clients’ lives and the lives of those around them.
Working with clients experiencing unhealthy shame presents you with a formidable therapeutic challenge. How do you effectively manage something that hides in the shadows … that by its very nature is so excruciating that it pushes people toward avoidance? How do you heal something that lurks behind masks of anger and defensiveness? How do you break through to suffering individuals who’ve spent a lifetime viewing themselves as wrong, unlovable, and unworthy of getting better?
Stop letting shame derail the therapeutic process and transform how you work with shame-driven clients.
Watch this recording and help your clients end avoidance, face their shame, and rewrite their story of dysfunctional self-worth and condemnation into one of compassionate acceptance.
Key Benefits:

Teach clients to manage shame without resorting to destructive measures.
Reduce judgmental thoughts and reactivity with mindfulness.
Cultivate secure self-attachment with somatic approaches.
Discover how shame complicates trauma treatment and how addressing shame can help you expedite recovery.
Build resiliency to shame with interventions based on empathy, forgiveness and compassion.

Enhance client attunement with clinical strategies that replicate conditions for healthy attachment.
Characterize how shame complicates the treatment of trauma and specify how shame can be worked with in traumatized clients.
Evaluate how shame can be addressed in your treatment plans with self-forgiveness interventions that can help facilitate recovery.
Communicate how anxiety generated by feelings of shame can be managed with breathing techniques that can be taught in-session.
Establish how depressed clients can manage shame generated negative emotions with imagery-based compassion exercises.
Analyze how mindfulness can be incorporated into therapy with shame-prone clients to reduce judgmental thoughts and reactivity.

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Recognize Shame: Assessment Tools

Shame vs. guilt
Multicultural perspectives
How addressing shame expedites treatment
Reading the body – non-verbal signs of shame
Interviewing questions for assessing shame in:

Key relationships and current patterns
Sexual, physical or verbal abuse, trauma, and neglect

Shame and Attachment Styles: 

Clinical Strategies to Cultivate Secure Attachment and Self-Compassion

Characteristics of shaming environments
Concerns of adults shamed in childhood
Strategies to replicate conditions for healthy attachment

How to enhance presence, attunement, resonance and trust
Dignity in the telling – titrating shame exposure

Somatic approaches to cultivate secure attachment

Developmental movements
Horizontal processing

Self-compassion exercises

Interventions to address interpersonal difficulties
Befriend bodily sensations
Common humanity visualizations

Address Shame in Your Trauma Treatment Plans: 

Reclaim the Body from Shame with Breath and Movement

How shame complicates trauma recovery
Polyvagal theory – shame and the shutdown response
Shame and victims of sexual assault – from victim to survivor
Exercises to strengthen connections

Belongingness treasures
Divine child mandala
I am meditation – choosing visibility

Interventions based in breath and movement

Heart mudra and breath – embracing resistance
The peaceful warrior

Effectively Intervene in the Downward Spiral of Shame, Anxiety and Depression: 

Cognitive approaches that lean into ruminatory shame

Put shame into perspective
Dispute shame messages

Anxiety interventions for the shame-prone client

Breath and movement strategies to stem panic
How yoga addresses anxiety symptoms

Break through shame fueled depression with:

Techniques to bring shame to light
Prosocial behavior
Imagery-based compassion exercises

The Devastating Impact of Shame in Relationships: 

Build, Maintain and Repair Couple and Family Relationships

Unmask shame – anger and other disguises
Engage partners in shame reparation
Shame resiliency strategies – empathy, forgiveness and compassion

Forgiveness in practice – Releasing breath with mantra
Identify shame wounds and antidotes
Mindful RAIN for shame – regulate emotions and reduce judgmental thoughts

Shame Research, Limitations and Treatment Risks