Shame

Shame: The Exposed Self by Michael Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this as a companion to Brené Brown's I Thought It Was Just Me since it popped up on Bookbub for less than $2. It was surprisingly helpful. It was much more academic and covered aspects of shame research as well as experiments the author performed. By being clear with the history of shame research and theorizing about the cause and effect of shame, I was much better able to see how to overcome shame (or as Brown puts it, to have shame resilience). It is quite in-depth and I now know everything I ever wanted to know about shame but did a great job of explaining it.

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