Toxic Shame is the #1 Fuel for Your Incessant Inner Critic

How to break the cycle of negative identity statements.

Adam Murauskas
Adam & Rebecca Murauskas
8 min readJun 7, 2022

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Woman looking through a magnifying glass. Adam Murauskas. FixYourPicker.com. Relationship coach. Toxic Shame. Perfectionism. Critical Self Talk. Healing Trauma. Healing developmental trauma.
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Self-criticism, self-loathing, negative self-talk — these are typically indicators of unmet childhood needs that you blamed yourself for.

For example, perhaps you only got attention from your parents when you were well-behaved and “successful”…

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