My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
Shame is the root of all addictions.
It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.
