Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life

by Patricia S. Potter-Efron and Ronald T. Potter-Efron

Book Overview

Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships.

As we identify shame and use recovery skills to work through it, the authors offer us a way that we can personalize a plan of action to help build our self-esteem, and they suggest exercises to help us identify our feelings of shame.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894866354
• ISBN13: 9780894866357
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Don't miss this book.

Even normal people from normal families have a certain amount of shame. This book helps to identify, personalize and deal with the shame that we have been piling on ourselves since childhood. Make sure you do the exercises at the end of each chapter. They are very valuable.

Practical Guide to Resolving Shame

Letting Go of Shame is an excellent self help guide. Each chapter ends with practical excercises. The material is presented in an orderly fasion, working through the issues one by one. The positive role that shame plays is covered, but the focal issue is toxic shame. It is easy for the reader to identify with symptomatic consequences of shame as each source of shame is presented. It is complementary to Bradshaw's classic book on the subject and in many ways is a simpler presentation for the novice. Complex and technical language is avoided. This is a practical self help guide for anyone dealing with the self inflicting pain caused by shame.