books about: shame     books:       Soul without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within16 reviews Byron Brown Shambhala, 1998 indespensible Even after the first three weeks of elation that I experienced after reading the book and implementing the many skills I learned, and the subsequent return to the reality of my "inner judge" causing havoc in my life, I still find this to be the most powerful self-help book I haver ever read. I reference it constantly, to find language to support my soul and release myself from negative feelings ...             Facing Shame: Families in Recovery8 reviews Merle A. Fossum, Marilyn J. Mason W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 Enlightening and Sad This book is an enlightening first step in understanding a spouse who is driven by perfectionism, anger and control. Reading the book makes you realize it's not their fault -- or yours either. (This does not make their behavior less destructive, but it's easier when you stop blaming them for it.) The person from this type of family does not have the self-awareness to recognize their own ...             Fifteen Minutes of Shame18 reviews Lisa Daily Plume, 2008 Way More Than FIfteen Minutes' Worth of Fun I loved Darby's voice and attitude; Daily shows that even though Darby is a dating expert, she can still be thrown a curveball by life (and men). She winds up falling hard hard hard, and then has to make a very tough decision. I loved the tension built up in the romance here, but I questioned a major turnaround Darby has at the end (I don't want to give it away). I understand why she made her ...             The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America50 reviews Jonathan Kozol Three Rivers Press, 2006 Fighting for America's Second Class Citizens After his time spent as an educator, Jonathan Kozol devoted his career to that of an educational reform activist. He has visited what seems like thousands of schools throughout the United States and the communities that make up those schools to bear witness to the shameful secret that lies hidden in plain sight. Kozol's message in "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling ...             Shame and Grace10 reviews Lewis B. Smedes HarperOne, 1994 Honest about Shame Smedes' strength in this book is his balance between academic investigation into the causes of shame and nature of grace, and the pastoral, almost familial sensitivity with which he discusses it. Shame and depressing rob us of real life -- don't let them any more. If you are plagued with the sense that you are just not worth much in this world, let Lewis help you understand the gritty power of ...             Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past6 reviews Sandra D. Wilson InterVarsity Press, 2002 Inspiring Sandra Wilson does an excellent job in constantly referring you to pray for enlightenment and healing throughout the entire book. Her use of scriptures inspired me to put down the book and pick up the Bible...more validation that this book truly reveals a Christian approach/guidelines to healing past issues. While difficult facing the realistic pictures of your past, this book inspires you to ...             Healing the Shame that Binds You: Recovery Classics Edition (Recovery Classics)46 reviews John Bradshaw HCI, 2005 Probably One of the Most Important Books I'll Ever Read I highly recommend this book anyone who has experienced - depression, guilt, grief, abandonment, abuse or addiction. Healing the Shame - points to the build up of - Undeserved Shame as Children - as the main reason for the emotional pain we're haunted by through out our lives - pain we are destined to relive if not faced. While Part One of this book expresses and pin points the Problem, Part Two ...             Born in Shame (Born in Trilogy, Book 3)44 reviews Nora Roberts Jove, 1996 Shannon... After finishing the last book in the "Born In.." series I felt like I was saying goodbye to long lost friends. This rarely happens for me because I read so much, but Nora introduced me to the best of people and the best of traditions. I may not read for a couple of days and those who know me will be shocked because I am rarely seen without a book in my hand or a book on the fireplace calling my ...             Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise8 reviews Jane Middelton-Moz HCI, 1990 Great This small book is about much more than the difference between shame and guilt. It is about degrees of shame (to the point of debilitating shame), ways that children are shamed, the consequences, characteristics of adults shamed as children and a lot more. One specific topic that I found extremely interesting was the explanation of grandiosity as a response to debilitating shame, which makes this ...             Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life1 review Ronald Potter-Efron, Patricia Potter-Efron Hazelden, 1989 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 ...             No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City9 reviews Katherine S. Newman Vintage, 2000 No Shame in This Game - Must Read This is a hands-on, front line study of America's working poor, a subject so infrequently covered in news media, with gross misunderstandings and negative stereotypes. Katherine Newman and a group of her graduate students from Columbia University spent years learning virtually ALL there is to know about the lives of workers in a fast food burger chain in Harlem in New York City. Through Newman's ...             Released from Shame: Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (People Helper Books)4 reviews Sandra D. Wilson InterVarsity Press, 1991 If you suspect you have been shamed, read this book This was an excellent book. It helps remove the blindfolds from your eyes so you can see how being brought up in a dysfunctional family affects you. She makes you feel like she knows what it is like to feel like everybody else is "different" and "better" than you. She gets to the root of how people wind up feeling that way. She also exposes tends in churches that tend to promote an ...             Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health33 reviews Richard Shames, Karilee H. Shames Collins Living, 2002 Help when your doctor ignores you My assistant pastor's wife gave me this book because she had noticed so many of the symptoms in me. When I did the self-assessment, my score was almost the maximum number of points. It blew me away! I took a list of symptoms to my doctor (a page long, single-spaced!). He refused to even read it. (No, I will never see him again if I have any choice.) My TSH test numbers were "within the normal ...             Shame Off You: Overthrowing the Tyrant Within5 reviews Alan D. Wright Multnomah Books, 2005 Awesome 15 years ago a counselor asked me what my shame was. I had NO clue what he was talking about... until now. I didn't have "shame"...I thought. There is nothing in this book that isn't applicable to everyone in some way. I wish I could have read this BEFORE I had children, and before I ruined some relationships. Maybe you don't have any shame, but others around you may be driven by shame.             Honor and Shame4 reviews Roland Muller Xlibris Corporation, 2001 Seeing Beyond Our Cultural Eye-Glasses I read this book after it came highly recommended by the president of the Evangelical Missions Society, and several college professors - and I do not regret it in the least. Rolland Mueller enables us to see beyond our cultural eye-glasses by laying out the anthropological concept of guilt based, fear based and shame based societies. As Westerners shaped by logic, philosophy, rhetoric and a ...             Coming Out of Shame : Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives6 reviews Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael Main Street Books, 1996 Change your life -- for the better! As a young man coming out, my journey of self-discovery started with quiet months of reading. I read everything I could get my hands on about homosexuality and being gay. This book stands out as the single greatest influence during and since that time. The authors have taken a careful and thorough examination of the sociology and psychology of shame as it relates to being gay. The ...             Shame: A Novel24 reviews Salman Rushdie Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 Another inexorable dance between fiction and reality... This, Rushdie's third novel, explores the universal theme of shame in the context of an - somewhat imaginary but simultaneously all too real - Islamic society. The characters swim up to their necks in the stuff. From the three sisters, Chhunni, Munnee, and Bunny (who remain locked up in "Nishapur" with their deadly dumbwaiter), who think more of their inheritance than their father's death to the ...             Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self5 reviews Donald L. Nathanson W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 Shame -- Now I understand! Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self This is the most readable and cogent explanation of shame to those of us born and bred with that heritage, not knowing it was not the norm for sense of self and relationships. Excellent! I read it in 1992 and am rereading it and sharing it with those who live with the taint of shame.             Shame: The Power of Caring3 reviews Gershen Kaufman Schenkman Books Inc., 1992 A profoundly important examination of shame dynamics. Finding this book profoundly changed my life, by illuminating for me an aspect of human experience that had never been addressed (or even idendtified accurately!) in all my years of exploring various forms of psychotherapy. Indeed, 14 years later, I find that the field of psychotherapy is still largely uninformed/underinformed about the effects of shame dynamics on therapy itself - and I ...             Shame: The Exposed Self Michael Lewis Free Press, 1995 Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion. Much of our psychic lives involve the negotiation of shame, asserts Michael Lewis, internationally known developmental and clinical psychologist. ...              search for books affects, america, apartheid, children, classics, disguise, dysfunctional, edition, exposed, families, fifteen, healing, lesbian, letting, liberating, masters, minutes, overthrowing, recovery, released, restoration, schooling, thyroid, transforming, trilogy, tyrant, understanding, without, working, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen watches & jewelry: 10k Yellow Gold, February Birthstone, Amethyst Journey Pendant, 18" leave a comment home  impressum - about us