Awakening - Healthy Shame as the Source & Guardian of Spirituality Selected by his fellow mental health professionals, John Bradshaw is "One of the 100 Most Influential Writers on Emotional Health in the Twentieth Century." His insights on childhood and family relationships, and particularly the long-term effect of issues like abuse, neglect, addiction, co-dependency, trauma, and emotional instability, have revolutionized our perception of emotional healing and interpersonal dynamics. His body of work, including four New York Times Bestselling books, seven major PBS specials, daytime talk show The Bradshaw Difference, produced in conjunction with MGM, and speeches, workshops, training, and lecture series has helped millions of people heal. HEALING THE SHAME THAT BINDS YOU has sold 1.5 million of copies and is John Bradshaw's most enduring work. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame is the core component of our compulsions including, codependency, lying, addiction, and the drive to super-achieve or underachieve. This toxic shame, most often experienced in childhood, results in the breakdown of our self-esteem, the destruction of the family system, an inability to move forward and form lasting intimate relationships in our lives. http://www.johnbradshaw.com/healingtheshamethatbindsyou.aspx

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