Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw
Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw
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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Author: John Bradshaw

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/25/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Healing the Shame that Binds You is the most enduring work of family relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author John Bradshaw. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame, often learned young and maintained into adulthood, is the core component in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and drive to superachieve. While positive shame empowers us and sustains the fabric of our social system, inappropriate or misdirected shame results in the breakdown of our self-esteem, the destruction of the family system, and an inability to move forward with our lives.

In an honest and emotionally revealing style based largely on his personal experience with addiction and his decades as a counselor, John Bradshaw moves from the source and manifestation of toxic shame to the practical tools—affirmations, visualizations, inner voice and feeling work, guided meditations, and other healing techniques—that will release the shame that binds us to our past.

About John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw is the Waltham Director of the Anthrozoology Institute at the University of Bristol and the founder of the Anthrozoology Institute at the University of Southampton. He has studied human-animal interactions for over twenty-five years and is the author of numerous academic papers on the subject. He lives in Southampton, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie on April 27, 2010

In the category of self-help books for depression and anxiety, this was definitely a book that completely altered my outlook on life. I have to warn that the first part delineates the problem, and the second half delineates the solution. The first part can be very tough to get through. But it is nec......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on October 26, 2012

When you are stuck inside a closed family system, you do not know you are not normal. Because the entire organism is ill, you think like the other members of your family, in spite of how wrong you feel within. It is not safe to complain. You are expected to be compliant, and worse--to be grateful. He......more

Goodreads review by Emma on February 11, 2009

This book is a fundamental text in the field. What I found most helpful was understanding that shame-based families operate in a set of dysfunctional rules. Understanding that is the key to uprooting them from your psyche (or at least not taking them seriously). It also helped me understand the physi......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on July 25, 2016

This book gave me a lot to think about. I don't doubt that it is true that a lot of behavior that is "off" is caused by shame, but I can't believe that all of it is. For example, isn't some addiction just caused by the addictive nature of the substances? Anyway, here are some ideas from this book th......more

Goodreads review by Valter on August 25, 2017

I stopped reading at page 30. The ideas are worthy, but the author repeats his concepts again and again - and again! And in doing so, he makes me wonder about his need to convince himself. The author sounds still obsessed with his own demons: this makes for a heartfelt sharing, but not for an objecti......more