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    Month: August 2020

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    Shame 3. Healthy Shame Promotes Repair of All our Relations.

    Shame 3. Healthy Shame Promotes Repair of All our Relations.

    When we’re familiar with the compass of shame responses in our lives, we don’t need to be ashamed when noticing we have just enacted one or more of them, either internally or in external actions. Instead we can be interested

    Norman Brown August 14, 2020December 8, 2020 Emotions No Comments Read more

    Shame 2. Origins of Shame and Revisions of How it Works.

    Shame 2. Origins of Shame and Revisions of How it Works.

    The origin of shame is often an awkward, nameless void when we expect a tuned-in response by the person to whom we’re expressing ourselves. Thus what is most important about the actual experience of shame is that it does not

    Norman Brown August 9, 2020October 19, 2021 Emotional Fluency No Comments Read more

    Shame Benefits Our Growth: 1. Popular Awareness and Physiology

    Shame Benefits Our Growth: 1. Popular Awareness and Physiology

    Of all the nine inborn human emotions, shame is probably the most undervalued and certainly the most underappreciated. At least this is true in America where high self-confidence is valued for achieving success, wealth, power and fame. The popular conception

    Norman Brown August 6, 2020December 8, 2020 Emotions No Comments Read more

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