ABSTRACT
This chapter continues to illustrate how shame memory reframing is carried out. One week before the actual session, the therapist explains to the client how this technique fits in as shame-informed therapy, why it works and what is involved. She is asked to reflect and recall on some past shame memories that have been traumatic or intense to her. The presented verbatim is from the client’s first session of shame memory reframing through imagery. The best source of affirmation that the therapy has been effective and beneficial to the client is from the feedback of people closest to them. In addition, an inner vow is likely to have been made to avoid any further painful experience of the shame related to similar incidents in the future. In therapy, the client is also asked to verbalize the new script for the intentional replacement of the inner vow. Furthermore, early relationship failures affect the child’s developmental phases of the self as well as the individual’s future behaviours. As supplementary therapeutic work, the same process of shame memory reframing through imagery can also be carried out on the client now as an adult to re-own back the disowned parts of the child’s self.
