“A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose.…All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
Think of a time when you were humiliated or embarrassed and look at it as “clay” you can shape into a story. Draft a narrative with the humiliation/shame/embarrassment as the central issue. Mold it into a narrative that helps universalize and normalize the emotion.
