About Shame

Criticism that humiliates, ridicules or questions our worth as a person creates a wound in the soul, it is destructive rather than constructive.

The best weapon against shame is to share it and air it, because it feeds on secrecy. Have you ever thought about how shame affects you? Have you ever thought that maybe the same thing that shames you shames many other people? Have you ever wondered if it is you who shames other people?

The following video by Brené Brown explains with great clarity this feeling that no human being escapes. Twenty minutes that are well worth it: