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Healing the Shame That Binds You

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 best-selling 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.

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great book!

I loved the experience of Being! I feel transformed. The whole world needs this book!

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Identify the Shameful

Bradshaw gives a detailed analysis of where shame comes from and how it can get stuck inside of you. He then goes on to suggest how to go about ridding it and deepening your sense of self hood through finally finding God or a higher power. I'd rather he kept God out of it bc it seems like a crutch when real people need real help and answers. My only concern, but otherwise a great read.

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LEARNED A LOT

Wonderfully eye opening and helpful. I understand a lot of behaviors my husband
and I both have

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Very valuable

This is a valuable book; I recommend to buy also the paper version to have the meditation written down, and then record them in your own voice.

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the best recovery book

This book is the best recovery book I have read. its complete. don't deliberate.....buy it. he handles shame and talks about it like no one ever has. and he talks abiut the solution....something I find missing in a lot of books.

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Will listen again!

Incredibly powerful book. I felt very seen in a very heard for questions. I didn’t even know I had to ask. If you were raised Catholic, this book is for you.

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need to read more than once

helpful but complex. need to study more than once. I hope to keep in m y books list

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Empowering, absolutely loved it!

I love the flow and ease with which it started and continued throughout the book till the end, it was very practical and it helped to change my perspective and mindset on shame and fear based thinking.

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Like a candle piercing the darkness..

This books should be renamed SHADOW PIERCER. It helps (I listen it when ever the shadows get too anonymous) me name my demons and welcome them with open arms like teachers from the beyond. Thank you Bradshaw and audible for bringing this to me...

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Who knew?

I’ve learned in this book how to name and identify what all humans go through when we are shamed by family, community, and the culture at large. It is truly enlightening and I will definitely listen more to fully experience the meditations.

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