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Shame

Free Yourself, Find Joy, and Build True Self-Esteem

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Shame

By: Dr. Joseph Burgo
Narrated by: David deVries
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Shame is a difficult emotion, and most of us do what we can to avoid it. But veteran psychologist Joseph Burgo shows us how we can use shame - which is an inevitable part of being human - as a tool for better understanding ourselves and our relationships with others.

Encounters with embarrassment, guilt, self-consciousness and remorse are an unavoidable part of everyday life, and they sometimes have lessons to teach us - about our goals and values, about the people we expect ourselves to be.

Richly illustrated with clinical stories from Burgo's 35 years in private practice, Shame suggests that this often excruciating emotion tells us a lot about our own self-awareness and should not always be considered a toxic influence in our lives.

Joseph Burgo takes an intimate look at the full spectrum of shame - often masked by addiction, promiscuity, perfectionism, self-loathing or narcissism - and offers a new, positive route forward on the road to authentic self-esteem.

©2018 Dr. Joseph Burgo (P)2018 Macmillan Australia Audio Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences Health Mental Health Emotions

Critic Reviews

"An essential read for anyone who suffers from shame and self-criticism. This book can help transform the way you see yourself and the world." (Shannon Kaiser, best-selling author of The Self-Love Experiment and Adventures for Your Soul)
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I like how the author broke the topic down. I had not considered there was a whole family of states including self consciousness rather than just full on humiliation or embarrassment.

It was also useful to distinguish between what is hard wired and what is programmed

Powerful Book

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I found this audio book helpful to balance my thoughts regarding shame. There are exercises that are part of this book that are described in audio in the appendix that are bit hard to follow in an audio format, but I believe are available on the author’s web site

Balances My Thoughts

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Thank you Dr Joseph Burgo. Finally an audio book on the subject of shame than can relate to. For myself i cant praise this audio book enough. Very helpful.

Finally a book on emotional problem of shame that i can relate to.

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I really struggle with authors who use anecdotes of clients in their work. It feels as if valuable time has been taken up talking about this individual rather than some important theoretical or research based evidence to help with the inquiry. If this book had not had examples of clients I think I would have wanted to listen to all of the book but I couldn't. I've found it really difficult to listen to these other people And these reports of their experience.

I'm a good book but dislike aspects

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