RELEASE SHAME

WEEK 3 - PORTAL: THE WOUNDS

The card for this week is Release Shame. Before you start reading…take a moment to take in the image. For the next 7 days, use this card as a way to check in with your relationship to shame.

Place your hands on your heart a for a moment…take a few breaths…good…now let’s begin…

“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
— Anaïs Nin

Invitation

Shame is one of the most insidious burdens we carry. It speaks in whispers, hiding in the shadows of our past, telling us we are not enough, not lovable, not worthy. Unlike guilt…which says, ‘I did something bad’…shame says, ‘I am bad.’ And that lie can shape an entire lifetime.

This card invites you to question that lie. To gently bring light to the places inside you that were taught to feel ashamed simply for being human. Whether shame was passed down generationally, imposed through punishment, religion, culture, or woven into your earliest relationships…it does not belong to you.

You do not have to carry it any longer.

To release shame is to remember who you were before someone convinced you otherwise. To reclaim your innocence, your dignity, and your right to exist fully, messily, and gloriously as you are.

💔 The Wound

Shame is a powerful emotional undercurrent…often silent, often inherited…that tells us we are not just doing something wrong, but that we “are” wrong. Unlike guilt, which says “I made a mistake,” shame says, “I am the mistake.”

This card offers you the beginning of a return…to yourself. To your innate goodness. To the radiant truth that your worth was never in question. So many of us absorbed shame early: from words unspoken, from conditional love, from spiritual dogma, from family systems ruled by secrecy or perfectionism. And because shame isolates, we often carried it alone.

But here’s the truth:

Shame can’t survive being spoken, witnessed, or held with compassion. Let this card remind you that you are not alone, you are not broken, and you are not too much. You are enough. And you always were.

💠 Inquiry Questions

Take these into your journal or simply reflect quietly:
• When did I first learn to feel ashamed of who I was?

• Whose voice do I hear when I feel shame?
• What parts of me have I hidden or silenced because of shame?
• If I believed my worth was unquestionable, how would I treat myself today?

🔻 Releasing Statements

• I release the lie that I am something to be ashamed of.
• I release the legacy of shame passed down through generations.
• I release the belief that vulnerability is weakness.
• I release the fear that being seen means being judged.

🔺 Receiving Statements

• I receive the truth that my worth was never in question.
• I receive the innocence that shame tried to cover.
• I receive the courage to show up exactly as I am.
• I receive the deep knowing that I am lovable in all my human

🕊️ Closing Whisper

• Let your breath become an act of compassion.
  With each breath, soften the grip shame has had on your story.

• You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not unworthy.
  You are healing. You are human. You are whole.

• Inhale:…. innocence…
  Exhale:…. condemnation