David Bedrick – författare

“In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry GhostsAn empowering, stigma-free approach to dismantling shame—a trauma-informed guide to restoring our authentic selfShame affects us all…often in ways we might not expect.Author, mental health expert, and professor David Bedrick helps us understand how shame shows up—and offers a revolutionary, stigma-free model to help us unshame and release its hold on our happiness.Shame is more than feeling guilty, sad, or responsible. It develops when we experience a trauma but can’t access the tools or freedom to express how we feel—or are denied the ability to ask for the care we need. It shows up when we aren’t witnessed—whether by a loved one, our community, our culture, or anyone from whom we need to hear: whatever happened to you, these parts of you that you think are unlovable or wrong—you’re not broken. I see you.Bedrick helps readers bring shame out of the shadows, inviting us to get to know it and listen to its wisdom without minimizing our traumas or pathologizing our experiences. He helps us move from seeing shame as a feeling toward holding it as an internal viewpoint—and offers us practical tools and exercises to dismantle the narratives that hold us back from living our lives whole, free, and in alignment with our most authentic selves.

A hands-on companion to the beloved bestseller The Unshaming Way—a step-by-step guide to free yourself from shame and trauma With practical prompts, personal reflections, and self-help exercisesIn his bestselling The Unshaming Way, author, mental health expert, and professor David Bedrick taught us how we can release ourselves from our histories of trauma and abuse, from the stigmas that steal our true happiness—from our shame. The experience of reading this revolutionary perspective on how we become our authentic selves was so powerful that one reader wrote, “Nothing has helped me more in all my years to be able to love and appreciate myself more fully.”Here, Bedrick has returned with a companion workbook that makes his evidence-based method more accessible than ever, through thoughtful questions and write-in exercises that walk us through the three keys to healing our shame: seeing, feeling, and believing. By going through The Unshaming Way Workbook’s guided reflections, Bedrick teaches us how to unburden ourselves of complex and childhood trauma. We learn how to trust ourselves—to look for not what’s wrong with us, but what’s right. We learn how to free ourselves from the compulsive idea that we need to be “fixed.” And we learn how to protect ourselves from the hurt others can cause us when we haven’t yet discovered who we are and what we need. Through this thoughtful, inspiring self-study, we can finally each become the empowered person we always knew we could—and deserve to—be.