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The Secret Message of Shame: Pathways to Hope and Healing

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This book categorizes shame in many different ways - almost too many. But it has really good chapters on several of the types of shame with lots of practical exercises. One of the useful analogies in the book is a comparison between healing from shame and healing from frostbite. I'm finding this book to be really helpful in looking at shame in a different way, in letting myself experience the shame rather than run away from it, to hopefully be able to move beyond it. I highly recommend the book.

I have read several books on shame and I did like this one. It was dense, but not too dense for me. I have a masters in counseling, work in the field, and am in counseling myself. There was some good stuff in there that I took with me. It is hard to give much info as I bought and read it a couple years ago. This is one of the books though that I would typically read a couple pages a day. There is quite a bit of info just in a couple pages. I appreciate the info on the etiology of shame.

I thought that this book was weak. The only positive I can say about this book is that it had some interesting points on the explanation or causes of shame but also it had parts that I didn't understand because I found contradicting points to their conclusions of shame also. Mainly why the book didn't do it for me because of it's style on how to deal with shame. It was too "touchy-feely". Hey if you think staring at yourself in the mirror and saying you love yourself everyday will work for you, then by all means go ahead and buy this book. But I thought that it lacked substance and the feeling I got after reading this book was wanting my money back.