To help girls overcome the shadow of shame or guilt
Shame and guilt can stop us from feeling empowered to be ourself. It can lead to all sorts of negative feelings and feel like its controlling our thoughts and decisions. The reality is that we all make mistakes, we all do things that we wish we hadn't, that we know aren't fitting with who we really are. The important thing is to learn from this so we improve ourselves for the now and for the future. We don't need to live in the shadow of shame and guilt.
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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development, and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls our negative legacy emotions—the painful emotional heritage that encumbers all human beings. The author marshals evidence that we evolved as the most violent and yet most empathic creatures on Earth. Evolution dealt with this species-threatening conflict between our violence and our close-knit social life by building guilt, shame, and anxiety into our genes. These inhibiting emotions were needed prehistorically to control our self-assertiveness and aggression within intimate family and clan relationships.
