Healing the Shame That Binds You
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3.8 • 22 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
In an emotionally revealing way John Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. The result is a breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We are bound by our shame.
Drawing from his 22 years of experience as a counselor, Bradshaw offers us the techniques to heal this shame. Using affirmations, visualizations, "inner voice" and "feeling" work plus guided meditations and other useful healing techniques, he realeases the shame that binds us to the past.
This important book breaks new ground in the core issues of societal and personal breakdown, offering techniques of recovery vital to all of us.
Customer Reviews
Most Concepts Well Thought Out Except for One Fundamental Flaw
Atheism isn’t a “neuroses”. That’s really all I need to write for this review.
Shame is a topic that isn’t really talked about in Western society, and when I came across this book I was delighted by its introduction and premise. I read a sample and it explained shame in a fairly balanced way, until it came to the spiritual/religious portions.
Theology has its place in modern studies but it shouldn’t be a foundation of any scientific argument. This book isn’t based on scientific research, even though it is sprinkled with a tantalizing micro-dose of psychology, misleading the reader in the beginning.
It is a shame because I think the fundamental ideas of this book has merit. But spirituality and religion as the final end-all be-all answer for shame is nowhere near scientific or researched or proven. This is an indulgent fluff piece by a spiritualist trying to masquerade as a mental health expert.
Btw I don’t care that this was written in 1988. The scientific method existed in the 80’s too.