To acknowledge shameful experiences leads to feeling more shame. Have you ever felt completely stuck in your work with a client and not been able to put your...

Pride: “the happy confluence of the affect joy and the experience of personal efficacy” (Nathanson, 1987, p.186). In brief, when we feel adequate within ours...

Shame can be a hindrance or a healing agent in psychotherapy. It is incumbent upon the therapist to recognize shame in the client, but, it is equally import...

People have developed a fascination with shame- other people's shame. While human beings are curious about their own shame, at the same time, people do not w...

While viewing other peoples’ stories on the internet and TV from a safe distance fascinates some people, the idea of facing the pain of our own shame present...

"At the core of chronic shame is an absence- the absence of connectedness (DeYoung, p.120). Affective interactions between a child and caretaker shape the br...