The idea of healthy shame is perhaps the most transformative, life-changing concept Sheila and I teach. It goes against all the conventional wisdom about shame. Most people think shame is unilaterally ...

One of the most common questions I hear from betrayed partners is this: “What does the infidelity say about me?” In this revealing question, betrayed partners are asking, “What does it say about me ...

To read Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame is to be reminded of how vulnerable we are to the emotion’s inhibitions and agonies. We shame, we are ashamed, and we expend significant energy imagining ...