Healing the Shame That Binds You: A 4 Hour Audiobook Workshop with John Bradshaw

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This classic book, written 17 years ago but still selling more than 13,000 copies every year, has been completely updated and expanded by the author.

"I used to drink," writes John Bradshaw,"to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed."

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

What Customers Say About Healing the Shame That Binds You: A 4 Hour Audiobook Workshop with John Bradshaw:

That someone who knows everything about you and still loves you can heal you with love (as Mr. This book is a classic. Doug BeyLoving an Adult Child of an Alcoholic Bradshaw notes in his dedication to his wife)Great book. The two points that I related to the most were:1. That 12 step programs convert shame to guilt and then work through the guilt.2.

But it will help you understand "why" some things are the way they are and help you formulate a plan on dealing with it.It didn't happen over night for me, it took a few years of hard work, but today I'm a very different person who can look himself in the mirror without being ashamed. A psychologist friend gave me this book to read and, when I finally and reluctantly did, I couldn't put it down.No book alone is going to solve your problems, only you can do that. This book helped me create a road map that I was able to follow. Quite simply this book saved my life. No, I wasn't an addict nor in a 12-step program, but I was in a spiral of which I couldn't pull out.

Then during some periods when some silence, or a break, would have been appropriate (such as during meditations), there was just an abrupt jump to the next segment. Bradshaw's motives.For those with an interest in this book, I recommend that you find a copy of the paperback version, which was expanded and updated for a 2005 re-release, and leave the audio CD version alone. It sounds as if the recording was made with a cheap portable cassette player. This product was so sloppily put together that I can hardly believe the cost of production was any more than that of a hardcover book. I want to be clear that I'm writing only about the 4-hour audio CD condensed from the live version of Bradshaw's toxic shame workshop.

One would think, at this price, that they might have re-mastered or possibly re-edited the original tapes to make a more polished, organized and listener-friendly product, but alas, they did not. You can tell when Bradshaw is moving around, or when he turns his head, as the sound level drops off or picks up in relation to his proximity to the recorder. I look to all self-help/recovery gurus with a somewhat suspicious eye, and what I got for my money in this case did not help my opinion of Mr. You'll be better served, and you'll save $90. Bradshaw repeats himself unnecessarily, and seems to be somewhat disorganized in the way he presents the material. If I had been able to take notes as I listened, I probably would have gained more, but I listened to them while driving.

The CD set is not a "book on tape" version of "Healing the Shame that Binds You." It contains much of the same information, but is given in a very different format.I'm going to put aside opinions on Bradshaw's ideas, which many people find very insightful and helpful, and focus here on the presentation. No post-production seems to have been done at all, even when the transfer to CD took place, except for the occasional jump when the group took breaks. In fact, if I had been able to sit and take notes, I probably would have chosen to re-read the original book rather than listen to this.Finally, I have to take issue with the $100 price tag. In short, the presentation is awful.First of all, the sound quality is abominable. The workshop was a weekend-long event, and the CD's are condensed down to four hours, so this might not have been so glaring to the original participants, but it made it difficult to stay with him listening to the CD's. There are pauses at inappropriate times, such as a 30 second period of silence after Bradshaw asked for a lighting change.

There is plainly audible tape hiss on the CD. Those jumps are irregular and amateurishly done.

i couldn't even get 25 pages into this book.it is so full of "techno-speak" littered with terms from counseling and psychoanalysis which are bewildering and unintelligiblethe whole premise of "healthy shame" is like saying "good murder"-it makes no sense.

This plays an important role in correcting it. Really recommend this for people who have the courage to get straight and not blame others - but understand the cause of one's shame. This deals very pragmatically with the issue of shame. It has helped me understand my own patterns and what drives me and others.