Letting Go of Shame

The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment.^Letting Go of Shame explains what shame is and how it can negatively impact self-image. Exercises and a personalized action plan help readers identify their feelings of shame and build their self-esteem.
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Patricia S. Potter-Efron is a family systems therapist and an individual and group therapist working mainly with families affected by chemical dependency. A graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, she now directs Professional Growth Services, a program for adult children with dysfunctional families and does group work with recovering chemically dependent women. The Potter-Efrons are co-editors of and contributors to The Treatment of Shame and Guilt in Alcoholism Counseling and Aggression, Family Violence, and Chemical Dependency.
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As we identify shame and use recovery skills to work through it, this book helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. The authors offer us a way that we can personalize a plan of action to help build our self-esteem, and they suggest exercises to help us identify our feelings of shame.
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