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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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Insightful Healing Approach • Practical Recovery Tools • Helpful Visualization • Transformative Personal Revelations
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I loved the experience of Being! I feel transformed. The whole world needs this book!

great book!

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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.

Identify the Shameful

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

LEARNED A LOT

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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.

Very valuable

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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.

the best recovery book

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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.

Will listen again!

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

need to read more than once

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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.

Empowering, absolutely loved it!

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This book was suggested by my therapist. It's pretty deep and heady. At times I wished the author would speak more to the regular fellow vs the psychologist, but still a great read.

Must have book, deep read

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Before there was Brene Brown, there was John Bradshaw. Brilliant, humble, nurturing and honest, this book, over the years, continues to enlighten and comfort. True adulthood comes from an honest and thorough examination of our inner selves. A must read for a world that is teetering on the edge of self destruction.

What we all need to know about shame.

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