Healing Shame & The Secure Self

Shame affects every part of our emotional lives, our confidence, our relationships, our boundaries, and even the way we speak to ourselves. Healing Shame & The Secure Self is a trauma-informed workbook that helps you gently unravel the deeply rooted patterns of self-criticism, people-pleasing, emotional avoidance, and disconnection that shame creates.
Written by Registered Psychotherapist Sarah Jackson, this workbook guides you through reflective exercises, somatic awareness, nervous-system grounding, and compassion-based internal leadership. You’ll learn how to recognize shame in the body, understand the role of the inner critic, build secure boundaries without guilt, and create a more stable, compassionate relationship with yourself.
This workbook will help you:
• soften and reframe the inner critic

• understand freeze responses and emotional shutdown

• build connection without losing yourself

• express needs with clarity and confidence

• practice secure, shame-free boundaries

• develop grounded emotional resilience

• reconnect with the parts of you shaped by fear or self-protection
Whether you’re beginning your healing journey or deepening ongoing therapeutic work, this workbook provides gentle, accessible tools for creating emotional safety and reclaiming your inner worth.
Your shame is not the truth of who you are.
Your Secure Self is waiting.