What are your experiences with confession?

It’s becoming increasingly important to me to live a life of truth and I think there’s power in owning your faults and saying them out loud. I know that the confessor listens to people so often and is probably used to folks being nervous, but I don’t wanna go in blindly.

Those of you that go to confession, what kind of things do you confess? Do you keep notes of all of your shortcomings?

Do you feel good afterward? I’m scared that by baring my insecurities to another person I’ll reinforce the cycle of shame that I’ve been working hard to break.

I’m also wondering if there’s anyone who incorporates confession into their spiritual practice in other ways?