Body Quote by Philip Roth

I'm continuing to peel away all these layers of shame and finding more and more freedom and confidence and just being able to joyfully…

— Simon Amstell

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

Believe in yourself. Pick a path that you, deep down in your soul, won't be ashamed of.

— Hiromu Arakawa

I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.

— Maria Semple

I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy.…

— Nan Goldin

“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our…

— Jeff Brown

“The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic automatic defensive…

— John Bradshaw

“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

“Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the most difficult…

— Amanda Ann Gregory

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

— Confucius

So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel…

— George Monbiot