COURSE

Healing Shame In Relationships

With Stacey Bennington | Psychotherapist & Coach

Shame is one of the most powerful and least talked about forces in our relationships. It is the feeling that says not just that you did something wrong, but that you are something wrong. And when shame is running the show, it shows up everywhere. In how you receive love. In how you respond to conflict. In whether you can truly let someone see you. In this course, you will learn what shame actually is, how it develops, how it shows up in your relationships in ways you might not immediately recognize, and what it takes to begin healing it so you can love and be loved without the constant weight of hiding.

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Meet your Teacher

Stacey Bennington | Psychotherapist & Coach

Denver, CO, USA

Stacey Bennington is a Registered Psychotherapist in Colorado and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist with an Ed.S. in School Psychology. She is also a Board-Certified Medical Support Hypnotherapist, a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and a Certified Integrative Attachment Theory Coach, with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She is certified in yoga nidra, a guided practice of deep rest and nervous system restoration. Stacey specializes in helping individuals understand how early attachment patterns and core wounds shape their relationships, communication, and emotional responses, and how to build more secure, connected ways of relating. Having walked her own path of healing a fearful avoidant attachment style, she brings both clinical depth and lived experience to her work. Her approach blends attachment theory, nervous system regulation, hypnotherapy, and subconscious reprogramming, meeting the mind in the deeply receptive states where lasting change takes root. Her meditations, sleep tracks, and mini courses are designed to help you feel seen in your patterns, understand where they began, and gently rewire those patterns at the root, so you can move through your relationships and your life with more security, calm, and confidence.

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Lesson 1

The Difference Between Shame And Guilt

Most people use shame and guilt interchangeably, but they are actually very different experiences with very different impacts. This lesson clarifies that distinction and explains why it matters so much for your relationships and your healing.

Lesson 2

Where Shame Comes From

Shame is not something we are born with. It is something we learn. This lesson traces the most common origins of shame, particularly within families and early relationships, so you can start to understand your own shame story with more compassion and clarity.

Lesson 3

How Shame Shows Up in Your Relationships

Shame does not always announce itself. It disguises itself as defensiveness, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and withdrawal. This lesson maps the most common ways shame shows up in relationships so you can start to recognize it in your own patterns.

Lesson 4

Shame And Intimacy

Genuine intimacy requires being truly seen. But shame makes being seen feel terrifying. This lesson explores the direct relationship between unhealed shame and the walls we build in our closest relationships, and what it actually takes to let someone in.

Lesson 5

Healing Shame In Real Life

Shame heals in connection, not in isolation. This final lesson offers practical, real-world ways to begin healing shame in the context of your relationships, with honesty about how slow and nonlinear this work tends to be.

by Stacey Bennington | Psychotherapist & Coach

6 min

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