An intimate look at the full spectrum of shame--often masked by addiction, promiscuity, perfectionism, self-loathing, or narcissism--that offers a new, positive route forward Encounters with embarrassment, guilt, self-consciousness, remorse, etc.
are an unavoidable part of everyday life, and they sometimes have lessons to teach us--about our goals and values, about the person we expect ourselves to be.
In contrast to the prevailing cultural view of shame as a uniformly toxic i.