To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.
John BradshawTags: shame
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.
John BradshawTags: shame
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
Christine de PizanTags: sexuality gender men women shame misogyny hypocrisy slander stereotypes double-standards clichés seduction promiscuity social-norms immorality
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
Christopher MooreWe cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
Tags: love self shame connection affection vulnerability betrayal blame disrespect
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
Elizabeth WurtzelTags: drugs shame depression treatment prozac depression-stories psychiatric-drugs defective defective-humans
Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.
Andrew AshlingTags: love shame love-quotes love-quotes-and-sayings
Looks like it’s game time,” Shame said. “Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don’t you think?
Devon MonkAmong the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.
J.R. WardWhy does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
Anne RiceTags: shame self-loathing
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