Dreams Quote by Brené Brown

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter…

— Stefan Zweig

“Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly…

— Maureen Johnson

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see…

— Brené Brown

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

— Kyra Sedgwick

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum

I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh us down.…

— Victoria Redel

“This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of abandonment and…

— John Bradshaw

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The goal is to learn to recognize when we are experiencing shame quickly enough to prevent ourselves from lashing out at those around us.”

— Brené Brown

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a…

— Christiane Northrup