How to Talk About Shame with Patrycja Slawuta: Part 2

Patrycja Slawuta, Ph.D., has spent a lifetime studying what most of us spend our lives trying not to touch — shame. As a behavior scientist and expert in collective shame, her work explores the holy trinity of taboo — shame, secrecy, and silence — and how invisible shame shapes every part of our lives, from family systems to finances.

In part two of this conversation, we move beyond financial shame into the deeper architecture of human belonging: we explore the roots of shame, its silent inheritance, and how it fractures our sense of self long before we find the language to name it. We talk about how shame shapes belonging, morality, and the stories we tell — or never tell — about who we are.

Together we explore how hope is born from adversity, why vulnerability is the beginning of true power, and what it really means to live a life of nothing left unsaid.

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