Shame and self-worth

• Card 1

  One of the more painful features of complex trauma is a persistent sense of being worthless, defeated, or fundamentally flawed — often carrying deep shame, sometimes about the trauma itself, even when none of it was the person's fault.

• Card 2

  This can sound like

  • 'If people really knew me, they'd leave'
  • 'I'm too much' or 'I'm not enough' — sometimes both, in the same day
  • A harsh inner critic that seems to know exactly where it hurts
  • Believing you don't deserve rest, help, or good things

• Card 3

  These beliefs usually formed as an explanation a person reached for at the time — 'it must be me' can feel more bearable to a child than 'the person I depend on isn't safe.' The belief can outlive its usefulness by decades.

  The Shame-Based Trauma and Inner Critic modules focus specifically on this territory.

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