Shame is a bewildering emotion that indicates you have feelings inside of yourself that imply inadequacy inferiority regret unworthiness dishonour uselessness, which you may or may not successfully hide from others. What shame actually does, is create within you, feelings that lead you to believe that you are bad broken wrong evil a misfit that you are invisible, better off not to being here Apart from your own feelings of not measuring up ignored letting yourself down feelin

For the past 4 years I have been very aware of the behavior of my little dog Sami at times. When she first came to us and I would walk her, she was pulling desperately at the lead, there was no enjoyment of walking, there was just a desperate ”getting somewhere” happening. To add to this she appeared terrified of any noise, bush and rubbish collection day heightened these fears. I felt distressed for her, yet I had awareness that our pets often mirror their owners deep fear