Author name: Joan Brooks

This is the blog I could not write 12 years ago when I started this series. I was filled with too much shame. “You call this writing!” “No one wants to hear what you have to say.” The usual lies my shame tells me when I’m trying something new, taking a risk. Fortunately, it’s never

This is the second article in a three-part series on reducing the effects of shame. In the first article, I described shame and shared a bit of shame’s effect on me. In this article I will explore how we have come to have so much shame. In the last one, I’ll help you discover ways

I began this series 12 years ago. I didn’t get past Part 2. Too much shame that it wasn’t good enough, that I wasn’t good enough. So much of what I know about and have experienced around shame has changed in the past 12 years, I could probably write a book about it. In this