Shannon's Journal

[Shannon]

Shannon, does Alpha Male help with overcoming unhealthy emotional guilt and/or (toxic) shame? And if so, in what way? And on which stages would this be addressed? I'm asking this because I believe that this is one of the root causes that has done a lot of damage to my perceived identity and undermined my ability to feel save fully express myself with healthy masculine feelings and being true (emotional wise) to yourself instead of just putting up a mask or cowering away.

It would help knowing that this would be handled by the program or that I have to figure this one out for myself (again).

AM works on making you emotionally healthy. That's the goal. But it does so my working on self esteem, self worth, self reliance, self respect, true pride (as opposed to false pride) and self control. It pushes you to do only those things that increase and improve those things. Guilt and shame are not directly dealt with, but it would seem that they are going to have to be destroyed by the program as a natural result of it dealing with the rest. These things are dealt with in all six stages, but are approached in different directions.

What specifically has you feeling guilt and shame? Is fear a part of that?