BookJohn Bradshaw.
Summary: This recovery edition is completely updated and expanded by the author, including follow-up on past studies, today's most cutting edge information, answers to the questions that have come up time and again since this book was first published twenty years ago and new chapters on the intersection between spirituality and emotional healing.
Contents:
The problem-spiritual bankruptcy
Introduction: shame as demonic (The internalization process)
The healthy faces of shame (HDL shame)
The toxically destructive faces of shame (LDL shame)
The major sources of toxic shame
The hiding places of toxic shame
The solution-the recovery and uncovery process
A parable: The prisoner in the dark cave
Introduction: the externalization process
Coming out of hiding and isolation
Twelve steps for transforming toxic shame into healthy shame
Liberating your wounded inner child and redoing toxic shame scenes
Integrating your disowned parts
Confronting and changing your toxic inner voices
Choosing to love and forgive yourself for your mistakes
Dealing with toxic shame in relationships
Spiritual awakening-the discovery process
Introduction: Healthy shame as the source and guardian of spirituality
Spirituality and sexuality
Shame as revelatory and revolutionary: discovering your spiritual destiny
Seven major spiritual blessings that come from developing healthy shame.