While the felt experience of shame is the same for men and women (Brene Brown calls it the “warm wash of shame”), what triggers shame […] Read More
Author: carolannetebay
There’s another comment I’ve heard as I’ve been talking about shame with others – pride is the opposite of shame. And along with that comment […] Read More
Some people may argue that a little shame is good for modifying behaviour. I’ve certainly run into that attitude before. And I felt plenty of […] Read More
I’m taking a lot of what I write in this post from Brene Brown’s book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the […] Read More
So I watched Brene Brown’s TED Talk on “The Power of Vulnerability” and it blew my mind. I might have thought before her talk that […] Read More
So why do I want to talk about shame and vulnerability all the time? Because I know what it’s like to be ruled by shame. […] Read More
Every time I decide to post something on my blog after completely ignoring it for months, I feel a pang of shame. Has it been […] Read More
I was listening to a talk by Rachel Held Evans last week. Near the end of her talk she spoke about the difference between healing […] Read More
They did this experiment at the University of Guelph. What they found was that “These conversations weren’t just connecting people—they were changing people. What […] Read More
I’ve been thinking about how we are changed. I am a very different person from who I was in high school. But how did I […] Read More