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My Most Common Recommendations

1. Psycho-cybernetics

2. The Magic of Thinking Big

3. The 7 Habits...

4. Simple*ology

5. Healing the Shame that Binds

6. To be or Not to be Intimidated

7. The Secrets to Getting a Job

























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Healing the Shame that Binds You

by John Bradshaw

Healing the Shame that Binds - book cover

This book is probably the most difficult piece of introspection that you'll ever be likely to do outside of a therapist's office.

But when you're finished doing the exercises, a great weight will have been lifted from your shoulders. Forever.

I'm not suggesting that it's some kind of magical panacea; it's not.
It is, however, an extraordinarily lucid account—based on Bradshaw's years of clinical experience—of the sorts of patterns that play out in families at the age we are most susceptible them. Patterns that are not planned, or thought out, or maliciously devised to screw us up. Patterns of behaviour that are just there as part of our childhood.

But patterns which, nonetheless, are very often poisonous of not only our world-view, but also our perception of ourselves, that is our own self-worth.

And the worst part is that we carry these patterns into adulthood, bringing them to bear on everything we do, and repeating them in all our interactions with people.

And then we pass them on to our children—just as unwittingly as our parents did!

This book is one of my most common recommendations, but it always comes with a caveat:

It will throw up some very uncomfortable truths.

Take note: Here be dragons.

Fortunately, though, it doesn't simply unleash them to terrorize you, it shows you how to slay them!

You might not be able to do so with one mighty swing of your mental sword; it will take time.

Healing the Shame that Binds You will help. A lot. Go get this book!