Earthquake of Shame

I was speaking with a very close friend the other day about shame. She proposed the idea that trauma is like an earthquake. Then shame would be the aftermath. I suggested that we could take it one step further with the differentiation of guilt and shame. If we had a city that was devastated by an earthquake, and we thought, “Now my city is a piece of crap.” Those seem to be the words of shame. If we thought, “A crappy thing happened to my city.” Then those seem to be words of guilt. When we experience something wrong or downright terrible in our lives, our interpretation of those events seems to be paramount to how we handle the thought of them in the future.