Unlearning Shame : How Rejecting Self-Blame Culture Gives Us Real Power

FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNMASKING AUTISM'This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. .' -Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling authorHow many times a day do you feel shame?Struggling to pay the bills; buying a top made in a sweatshop; reading the news and feeling - yet again - a powerlessness to the point of apathy?In today's self-blame culture, it often feels impossible not to carry shame about the choices we make and the values by which we live.When the political is so personal, and the personal is so political, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sense that we're not doing enough - maybe, even, that we're not enough. In this bold and transformative manifesto, social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism Dr Devon Price takes an in-depth look at shame and the role it plays in our lives.Systemic Shame traps us into fighting unwinnable battle