Hello Lovelies! I’m on holiday with my family in the UK. I’m currently sitting at the airport waiting for our flight to the Isle of Man. I’ll be posting the UnShaming Reflections once I land in a few hours once I land. Xo, Amanda

Here's something I want you to sit with as we close out this month: direct experience is unshamed experience. When you describe what you're feeling in your body using sensory terms like tingling, pressure, heat, heaviness, softness, you are speaking a language that shame can't touch. Because shame lives in opinions and judgments. "I'm too sensitive." "I'm broken." "Something is wrong with me." Those are ideas. They're interpretations filtered through a lens. But "I feel heat rising in my chest" is just truth. It's your experience, unfiltered. And when you practice staying with that direct experience instead of jumping to the interpretation, something shifts. You start trusting what your body knows, even when your mind has been taught to doubt it. This week's reflection: 💕 Set a few minutes aside to sit quietly with yourself. Close your eyes and scan your body slowly, from the top of your head down to your feet. When you land on a sensation, any sensation, stay with it. Describe it using only physical words: warm, tight, buzzing, hollow, heavy, soft, sharp. Don't interpret. Don't diagnose. Don't ask "why." Just describe what's there. Then write it down. What is it like to let your body speak without your mind editing the story? You've spent this whole month turning toward your body. That is not a small thing. That is unshaming in practice. xo, Amanda

This is the space to share what comes up for you as you work through Module 5: What UnShaming Actually Is. What is one moment in your life where you felt truly believed? Without someone trying to fix, offer advice, shown solutions, etc. Just seen. If you have one, I would love to hear what that felt like. And if you are still looking for that moment, that is welcome here too. This space is for all of it. xo, Amanda

Going Deeper Into Shame -- all five modules -- is now complete and ready for you to move through from start to finish. WOOHOO! This is the course that takes you from recognizing shame in your everyday life to understanding what unshaming actually feels like in your body. It is not about fixing yourself. You are not a problem to be solved. You are a nature to be witnessed. This is what you get access to: Module 1: Seeing the shame lens as it operates in your everyday life. Module 2: Tracing the messages you carry back to where they actually came from. Module 3: Meeting the shaming witness and understanding how she became your inner critic. Module 4: Coming home to your body and learning to listen to what it has been trying to tell you. Module 5: What unshaming actually is and your first real experience of it. Each module comes with at least one companion resource to work with alongside the video. Access the full course by becoming a Founding Member for $9/month and lock in this rate for as long as you stay! This gives you access to all future courses, workshops, digital products, and events that I add to this plan. Cancel anytime. Upgrade here, Premium Plan. xo, Amanda

When you've been dealing with a chronic symptom for a long time, something quiet and painful can happen alongside the physical suffering. You start to identify as a sick person. A tired person. A person with "issues." The symptom becomes the headline of your story. And slowly, without anyone meaning for it to happen, your parallel wellness gets eroded. The part of you that is a gifted being, a creative force, a person with something to give the world, that part gets buried under the weight of trying to get better. That's a big loss. And it's one that shame makes worse, because shame says: "You can't show up until you're better, healed, or fixed." But you are not only your symptoms. You never were. This week's reflection: 🌟 Think about a physical struggle you've been carrying, something chronic or recurring. Now ask yourself honestly: "Who would I be if I wasn't trying to make this go away?" Not "who would I be if it disappeared," but who are you, right now, alongside it? How would you move through the world differently? What gifts, passions, and ways of being have gotten buried under the effort of managing this? What do you want to reclaim? You don't have to wait until you're healed to remember your wholeness. 💛 xo, Amanda