Trauma & Past
Hypnosis for shame
Reduce the weight of shame.
Shame Release is a session for the weight that sits in the chest and the urge to hide from it.
The audio works by separating who you are from what you feel, and it spends most of the time rehearsing a kinder voice speaking to you. There is no need to share the details with anyone else.
You do not have to have done something terrible to feel this way. It is the sudden flush in the face when someone is kind, or the urge to hide when you remember a small mistake from years ago.
The feeling sits in the chest like a stone, and it is often easier to carry it than to try explaining why it is there.
What’s in it
A gentle way to set down the weight of shame and meet yourself with the warmth you have always deserved.
Why do it
Shame was never the truth of who you are, and a few quiet minutes here help you feel that, not just hear it.
- Theme
- Trauma & Past
- Delivery styles
- 3
- Lengths
- Quick ~10mStandard ~20mDeep ~45m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 5
- On this shelf
- 9 sessions
Timeline: Start to Finish
The suggestion block spends most of its time separating you from the feeling. It repeats the idea that the warmth is yours until that distinction feels ordinary rather than something you must argue for.
4 of the 5 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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SafetyStage 39 min
Personal Sanctuary
A custom safe space designed by your unconscious. Your refuge any time, anywhere.
After Battino, Guided Imagery; safe-place protocols
Inserted before the suggestion for every Trauma & Past session, so there is a stable place to be.
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Suggestion ScriptStage 410 min
Shame Release — Balanced
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AwakeningStage 52 min
Calm Alert Awakening
Awake and present, but calm rather than energized. Good for evening or pre-meeting use.
After Yapko, Trancework
Three ways to say it
The same goal, written three ways. You pick the one that sounds like something you would believe — and you can hear a different one tomorrow without rebuilding anything.
Balanced
Separate yourself from the feeling, hear a kinder inner voice, and let the weight lift. The default.
Future self
Meet the version of you who already carries an easy, unashamed warmth toward themselves.
New identity
Step into being someone at ease with themselves, with nothing to hide and nothing to prove.
Where it sits
Old material, approached slowly and with a safe place built in first.
Before you press play
- This one asks for a bit of care. In the app it opens with a consent step before anything plays.
- Not the right session right now if any of these are live for you: active thoughts of suicide or self-harm.
- A Personal Sanctuary block is added automatically before the suggestion, so there is somewhere stable to be first.
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
Why this works — and what the research actually says
Group-level, not session-level: no study has tested this exact session, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every source below was opened and read on 2026-08-25 before it was quoted.
Why do it as hypnosis?
Talking about the past does not always move the feeling, and thinking your way out of it usually makes the circle tighter.
This works by keeping you still while the voice repeats a different tone until it sounds like your own.
The mechanism is simple rehearsal: you hear the warmth often enough that the old harsh notes start to seem less like the only truth.
Grief: what the research does not say
Worth knowing: There is no meta-analysis of hypnosis for grief. What exists is case reports.
We are showing you the evidence for grief work in general precisely because the evidence for this session's method specifically does not exist yet.
The exact wording and figures
A systematic review of grief interventions across 12 randomised controlled trials found they reduce grief symptoms from before to after, but were more effective than control treatments in only just over half of those trials.
The review does not examine hypnosis at all.
Published in Innovation in Aging. Included here as the honest answer rather than the flattering one.
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