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Untethering Shame

New episodes every Sunday!Shame is the fear of not being good enough or worthy of connection and belonging. This silent plague keeps us tethered to the performance, focused on external validation and approval versus internal rooting.

Podcast · By Kyira Wackett · American English · Official site

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Sep 20, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 20, 2026

    Shame & AI: The Hidden Cost of Communicating Better with Salvatore Manzi (opens the original)

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    We all have two versions of ourselves now. The one who sends the perfect, AI polished email, and the one who stumbles through the meeting five minutes later. In this episode I sit down again with communication coach Salvatore Manzi to talk about what that gap is really costing us, and why AI didn't create our shame around communication, it just turned up the volume on it. We get into why a "neutral" message almost always gets read as negative, the unconscious bias that makes people see AI users

  2. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    You Don't OWE Your Parents Access to Your Kids (opens the original)

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    Once you have kids of your own, a hard expectation can show up: that your parents are automatically owed unlimited access to your children, and that everything painful between you and them should be forgotten now that there are grandkids in the picture. If you have ever heard "you're keeping them from me" or "after everything I did for you," and felt the guilt flood in, this one is for you. I want to be clear with you. Access to your kids is not automatic. It is a privilege, not an entitlement.

  3. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    Shame & Loss: What Grief Taught Julie Lucas About Receiving Love (opens the original)

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    "I thought I knew what grief felt like." A year and a half ago, Julie Lucas' husband Tommie left for a work trip and never came home. What she found on the other side of that loss was not the grief she expected — it was the shame of grieving wrong, the guilt of feeling okay, and the strange loneliness of being surrounded by people who love you and don't quite know how to reach you. In this episode, Julie and Kyira talk about the fear that stops most of us from grieving at all: that if you let yo

  4. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    When Your Parent Gives You the Silent Treatment (It's Not Your Fault) (opens the original)

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    When your parent goes silent... — if a parent has ever shut you out, given you the cold shoulder, or gone quiet to punish you, this episode is for you. We break down why the silent treatment is so powerful, why their silence is not your fault and not your job to fix , and three real scripts you can use to respond without falling into shame. In this episode In this episode of our series on messy parent–child relationships, we cover: Why the silent treatment works — and why it's really about them,

  5. Episode · Sep 6, 2026

    Shame, Meltdowns and Tantrums: Managing Emotions in Our Children & Ourselves with Dr. Bethany Bilodeau (opens the original)

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    Is it defiance, or is it fear? I sit down with Dr. Bethany Bilodeau (Dr. B) , an expert in human behavior, to talk about why school refusal, meltdowns, and "non-compliance" are almost always a nervous system that does not feel safe, not a bad kid. Your child plants their feet at the front door. They will not get on the bus. They melt down over a spelling mistake, throw the game board, refuse to walk into a classroom. Everyone around you has a label for it: oppositional, disobedient, manipulative

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