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Healing Shame

How to Work with This Powerful, Mysterious Emotion - and Transform It into an Ally

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Healing Shame

Written by: Bret Lyon PhD SEP, Sheila Rubin MA LMFT RDT/BCT
Narrated by: Bret Lyon PhD SEP, Sheila Rubin MA LMFT RDT/BCT
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Uncover our most powerful, complex, and misunderstood emotion

Shame. Just the word makes most people uncomfortable, and though we all feel shame, no one likes to acknowledge it. Why? Because shame is the most painful and destructive emotion we experience. It’s also designed to protect us.

In Healing Shame, Sheila Rubin and Dr. Bret Lyon ask the question: What if your shame - that awful, overwhelming emotion - could work for you instead of sabotaging your well-being?

“Shame is at the root of depression, trauma, addiction, eating disorders, and perfectionism”, they teach. “When we go to extremes to keep our vulnerabilities hidden, our very efforts keep us stuck. But when we develop a healthy relationship with this complex emotion, we find freedom and healing.”

An empowering exploration of shame - where it comes from and how we can heal

For almost two decades, Lyon and Rubin have been leading the effort to educate psychotherapists on how to more effectively work with shame. With this new audio program, they make their most important teachings available to everyone. Through six dynamic, practice-filled sessions, you’ll explore topics such as the difference between shame and other difficult emotions, sex and relationships, the body and aging, childhood trauma, and more. Finally, you’ll learn how to have a healthy relationship with shame, cultivating safe boundaries, strength, and resilience.

A married couple who have made peeling back the layers of shame their life’s work, Lyon and Rubin bring great compassion to their teachings. With humor and hope, they’ll help you understand how to transform toxic shame into healthy shame, so you can go from feeling stuck, wrong, and fearful to creative, whole, and empowered.

Highlights

  • Why shame is the “magic” emotion - explore the mysterious, transformative nature of shame
  • How shame keeps us stuck, making it harder to move on from other difficult emotions and experiences
  • Unconscious shame - why this might underlie a host of other symptoms, and how to address our issues at their roots
  • Where shame comes from - understand the unique series of events, internal and external, that lead to lasting shame, as well as its inextricable link with trauma
  • The ways shame interacts with the most important parts of our lives—sex and relationships, addiction, our bodies, aging, sharing our work with the world, and more
  • Working with shame in therapy - guidance for both practitioners and clients
  • How to transform toxic shame into healthy shame - understand the evolutionary role of this powerful emotion
  • A wealth of tools, practices, and exercises from a variety of therapeutic traditions to help you work with shame in safe, compassionate ways
  • Six in-depth audio sessions filled with understanding, insight, and hope for healing

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Sheila Rubin, Bret Lyon (P)2021 Sounds True
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Safe teaching

To me a wonderfully real wholesome and honest teaching. Gratitude for the author’s sharing from years of experience and knowledge. 🙏

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Maybe the most important information for my life

This 6 session title gave me the key to understanding just about everything about my life and feelings. I have already been able, in only a few days, to move beyond some of the crippling effects of an extremely abusive childhood. I do have other techniques to help me: counselling, PTSD therapy, Releasing, IFS work, support groups, Laughter Yoga, journalling, meditation - but I was still stuck. This information has helped me start to heal at a fundamental level. It brought everything together into a coherent whole and allowed me to begin to believe in my right to an existence. I have begun to begin to unravel the shame of my shameful conception, gestation and unwanted birth. I have tried many times to allow Mother Nature, the Universe, the World, the Oneness, the unnamed deity to affirm my right to exist, but always there was a deep, unconsolable pain that stopped me from really believing that anything but my mother's view of me was real. I can now feel a shift that I can begin to believe. Through this series I learned that not just me, but everyone experiences shame. This is well worth the listen for everyone.

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