Showing all posts tagged #shame:


Defensiveness and taking feedback too personally

Posted on November 12th, 2019

I always thought I'm not any close to that kind of person, but it turns out that having the two very issues have successfully kept me stuck in a toxic way of communicating with people, and destroying relationships with them. And for sure have kept me f...

Is shame a negative emotion?

Posted on December 8th, 2018

I just listened to a poem/song about it in my native language.. and realised something.. that shame may originally not be negative. Maybe it is our parents who make it negative, because they use it to educate us, by combining shame with withdrawing lov...