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Lifting Shame

 
In an early IFS session we met a part that was burdened with a deep shame.  She wanted to please her Mommy, but she couldn't.   After she learned it was not her fault, after she had told her story though memories and images, Joanne asked how she would like to be unburdened.
 
She said she wanted white Angel Birds to carry the dark shadow of shame up to the feet of God.   Not knowing how to make the feet of God l settled here for the big burden of shame just being carried into the sky by the white satin angel birds.

 



 

Here we have a two year old, modeled after my granddaughter Zoe when she was two.  She's in her pink glory.


The border here is cut from the edges of a piece of  African embroidery. The pink tassels I bought a long time ago and I had just enough for this purpose.  
 
All these elements make a bright sugar and spice little girl day and this wall hanging was a lot of fun to make.
 
I enjoy visiting "Lifting Shame" both when I'm feeling really good and also when I get ashamed of myself for not knowing how to do something.
 
 

Turquoise sequin material is cut into strips and woven into the rug backing to make a sparkly sky background.  The chains and flowers come from black or soft yellow novelty fabric of circles and flowers sewen onto the rug backing.  

The story for me has shifted over time. Lifting Shame was finished in 2011.  By 2014 my parts found a way to use the story to make a profound shift in one of my main managers as she moved from garding to guiding.  This story is told in "Transformation of a Main Manager."

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