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    Healing the Shame that Binds You
    Healing the Shame that Binds You
    Healing the Shame that Binds You
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    Healing the Shame that Binds You

    Written by John Bradshaw

    Narrated by John Pruden

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 25, 2011
    ISBN9781452673615
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    John Bradshaw

    Ex US Army Officer, Ex State of South Carolina SITCON team member, 2nd degree Black Belt, private pilot, married, 3 sons, business owner.

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    • 5/5
      Wisdom that mends and speak deeply to a desire of meaningfulness

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Life changing book. Helped me in so many ways. Shine light into my heart. I feel so great and inspired. I love me as I an

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think is really healthy to read this book to understand the different ways unhealthy shame affects us and how to recover from it, shame is really pervasive and damaging at our core self, I really recommend this book.

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    • 5/5
      Everyone should read this book. It gives you so much insight. Recommend it ?
    • 5/5
      This book just saved my life, I am so grateful
    • 5/5
      A masterpiece as part of Bradshaw's collection. I recommend all of his books including his seminars
    • 5/5
      One of the first definitive books on the topic. His understanding, compassion, and practical self-help steps are among the most heartfelt.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantastic book! He covers shame in every aspect, feeling, action, origin, manifestation that there is. He showed how addiction comes from shame and covered every single kind of addiction there is.
      The meditations are good. But I think another person is needed to guide the meditation. Although he's Christian, he has a much expanded concept of God that everyone, including Christians, can benefit from. This is a must read for everyone!
    • 1/5
      long and boring did not stop talking and was very annoying
    • 3/5
      John was a mistreated child who has tried to overcome his shame based self perception. He is a teacher and author, who writes to help himself and others with similar problems. He makes some good points on the behavior patterns developed during childhood and their effects during adulthood. John has degrees in philosophy and theology. Although he tries to come across as intellectual, he is more of a mystic and spiritualist than a scientist. For this reason much of his thought process is flawed by his biased world view. He is still tainted by his religious views. He perceives society by his value system and is not objective. I cannot recommend this book except for those with a serious shame problem and even then one should be weary of some flawed information and though processes.
    • 5/5
      An excellent, in-depth book that uncovers the toxic shame behind addictions. Bradshaw talks about his own recovery in the book as well. Contains several exercises to help relieve shame.