**A hands-on companion to the beloved bestseller The Unshaming Way—a step-by-step guide to free yourself from shame and traumaWith practical prompts, personal reflections, and self-help exercises**In his bestselling The Unshaming Way, author, mental health expert, and professor David Bedrick taught us how we can release ourselves from our histories of trauma and abuse, from the stigmas that steal our true happiness—from our shame. The experience of reading...

**“In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry GhostsAn empowering, stigma-free approach to dismantling shame—a trauma-informed guide to restoring our authentic self**Shame affects us all…often in ways we might not expec...

Humans live in a web of relationships and true healing is always connected to family, community, and culture. Bedrick tells us that there is no symptom that belongs only to the individual, whether that ailment is emotional, spiritual, physical, social or financial. He gives examples of how symptoms are embedded and woven into all culture.

Here we explore an alternative to looking at our bodies through the lens of the brutal forces of cultural bias that highlight the personal shaming that tears down the expression of our intelligence, power, and beauty. Bedrick gives many enlightened examples of women he’s worked with. He takes us into the deeper mysteries of the deeper hungers we are going for.

We are a society of armchair psychologists, who are constantly self-diagnosing. There are scores of books and television programs that suggest ways for us to reprogram and rid ourselves of disturbing feelings and behavior patterns. Bedrick is deepening the dialogue about the role and practice of psychology in today’s society. Much of mainstream or “pop” psychology give us plenty of labels, but does it go deep enough to motivate us to truly change destructive patterns? David Bedrick gives u...

In this 2024 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, David Bedrick points out that shame hides us both from others and from ourselves, and it teaches us not to trust our feelings. Bedrick suggests that, rather than using shame and guilt as a moral compass, we adopt a more effective strategy for a healthy mental and emotional life: to unhook ourselves from shame. This enables us to hear the intelligent messages from our body that allow healing to take place at a deeper, more sustainable leve...

**“In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry GhostsAn empowering, stigma-free approach to dismantling shame—a trauma-informed guide to restoring our authentic self**Shame affects us all…often in ways we might not expec...

**A hands-on companion to the beloved bestseller The Unshaming Way—a step-by-step guide to free yourself from shame and traumaWith practical prompts, personal reflections, and self-help exercises**In his bestselling The Unshaming Way, author, mental health expert, and professor David Bedrick taught us how we can release ourselves from our histories of trauma and abuse, from the stigmas that steal our true happiness—from our shame. The experience of reading...

Reframe your story—and reclaim your life—through writing and storytelling in this “invaluable guide” (Danielle Ofri, MD, PHD, author of What Doctors Feel).A Harvard-trained doctor draws on narrative therapy and her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis to offer chronic illness patients a way through anxiety, confusion, and trauma.When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realize...

**A comprehensive workbook for understanding and treating developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)Includes practical exercises for understanding ACEs, addressing C-PTSD, nurturing post-traumatic growth, identifying survival styles, and more**Designed for clinicians, trauma therapists, and practitioners of the NeuroAffective Relational Model, this workbook offers a blueprint to NARM’s transformative approach to healing developmental trauma. Autho...

Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally for your health and happiness.Why do we feel shame? Given how painful and destructive shame can be, it’s easy to see this emotion as an inner demon that turns our own mind against us. Yet shame is a universal emotion—and it serves an important purpose. “While toxic shame can keep us stuck in a self-defeating vortex,” say Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin, “there is a health...

A gentle, supportive guide to developing coping skills and improving quality of life for disabled and chronically ill peopleManaging the stresses of everyday life can be exhausting and overwhelming. Dr. Jennifer Caspari knows this struggle well—both through her work as a clinical psychologist and her lived experience as a disabled woman with cerebral palsy. You Are More Than Your Body weaves together clinical expertise, personal stories, and practical, evi...