John Bradshaw

Shame is the motivator behind many toxic behaviors like compulsion, codependency, addiction, and drive to superachieve. This title identifies personal shame, explains the underlying reasons, and addresses root causes.

Recovery Classics Edition

Healing the Shame that Binds You

Mike M

Wonderful insights and striking imagery. Helpful activities and ideas. Remeber: atke what's helpful and leave what isn't. Plenty of other recommendations within the text. Can lean a bit of religious imagery but is aware of this bias. 

Kirollos Romany 

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.

Healing the Shame That Binds You

Erlank Pienaar

Life-changing. Period. What you don't know (realise) is killing you. Literally. You will cry. 

Healing the Shame that Binds You Recovery Classics Edition

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