All of us. If we are human, we have experienced shame.
Please know, there is no shame in feeling shame. It is a natural human emotion, like happiness or fear. The emotion of shame is not bad, even if it feels icky, like fear does. The emotion is neither good nor bad. It is just trying to communicate something to us.
If we don’t address our feelings, though, then we carry that shame and think we are the defective ones. And that shame erodes our identity. We begin to believe the lies that shame tells us and these lies affect us, our choices, and life until we address them and replace them with the truth.
Go deeper, see There is No Shame in Feeling Shame, post 2; How the Lies of Shame Cause Us To Think We Are the Defective Ones, post 3; Environments Where Shame Thrives, post 4.
