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“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”

Ifs Stories Understanding Share Empathy Shame Empathy And Understanding

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.”

Feelings Empathy Shame Guilt

Author:George Saunders

“How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?”

Desire Motivation Empathy Understood Shame Intensity

Book:Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Source: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”

Ifs Needs Three Grows Silence Amount Judgment Empathy Shame Ingredients Dishes Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“Empathy is the antidote to shame.”

Empathy Shame Antidote

Author:Brené Brown

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”

Ifs Way Stories Light Speak Language Empathy Shame Exposure Unspeakable Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

“Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”

Self Able Compassion Keys Empathy Shame Gentle Midst Reach Out Self Compassion

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”

“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.”

Author:Brené Brown

“Stories require voices to speak them and ears to hear them. (..) Often, the problem isn't with the voices (..), voices are frequently there - singing, screaming, yearning to be heard - but we don't hear them because fear and blame muffle the sounds. (p. 41, 42)”

Women Compassion Courage Empathy Shame

Book:I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame