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Transforming shame into connection

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Right when you can really be yourself and share this then the shame actually gets transformed into connection hi I'm adriel creator of the herpes opportunity which is all about positively shifting your mindset disclosing to potential partners in a way that truly connects you and ultimately finding the love that you want and deserve now you can check out the free ebook linked in the description below about having the talk and now on to the video I hope you enjoy it I look back and I realized the the moment I got herpes was actually the moment that I really started to recognize who I was on a deeper level but at first it [ __ ] sucked because it burned away some of those layers of like identity I thought I was all these things and if I have herpes then I'm I'm not attractive anymore and I like going through that that rewiring of your brain is painful yeah it's a it's a rewiring of your identity going deeper yeah right when you can really be yourself and share this then the shame actually gets trans transformed into connection so the fact that you have ...

... herpes now if anything and again this it's not fair to say a black and white kind of a thing of like all people who reject people with herpes are judgmental right but when it comes down to it the kind of woman that you're gonna want is the kind of woman who's gonna say oh actually yeah herpes is not a big deal okay this is the human condition as you well know right we just like whenever they're especially when it comes to vulnerability love putting ourselves out there there is going to be that voice in our heads saying you're a piece of [ __ ] and you don't deserve it okay it's biological it's from our caveman days right it's the angel and devil on our shoulders it's the it's the good nature of us and the bad nature of us so this is like the yin and yang this is like this is universal right so if you can actually really start to look at this uh in in in a larger way that this is that herpes was your doorway that's why I call it the herpes opportunity as crazy as that sounds it's the it's the opportunity to actually step into this this binary way of okay I can either live my life from this place of clarity and conviction in who I am or I can live from a place of fear ...

... and self-judgment and and actually creating hell on earth for myself just because of this thing called herpes and for other people it's cancer or it's I'm too fat or whatever you name it we have a lot of shame in our culture well I hope you got a lot out of that video and if you did please let me know please like comment and subscribe and keep an eye out for more videos just like this you

This video is part of the free "inside coaching" series.
"When you can really be yourself and share this, then the shame actually gets transformed into connection."

A herpes diagnosis can burn away some layers of our identity. The process of rewiring your brain and identity after a diagnosis can be painful. And it can be an opportunity to recognize the voice in your head is just that (a voice) not the truth about you. If you can begin to look at herpes as a doorway to finding the truth about yourself, then you can start to live your life from a place of clarity and conviction. Instead of living in shame and fear, which creates hell on earth for yourself. When you can be yourself and share your true self, that shame can be transformed into connection.

P.S. This video is part of the free "inside coaching" series.

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