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Shame

June 2, 2016 by Heather Booth

On Keeping Secrets and the Power of Stories: a guest post by Michele Bacon

At 17, I was madly in love with a clever, playful, adorable boy. I loved him fiercely. And—to my utter surprise—he loved me. Together, Michael and I did theater, marching band, and speech team. Over three (mostly) blissful years, we shared everything: our most cherished dreams, our ugliest failures, our triumphs, and our personal insecurities. […]

January 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Racism, Privilege, Shame, and a Book Giveaway (a guest post by author A.B. Westrick)

I had already written Brotherhood when I first listened to Brené Brown’s TED Talkabout shame. Growing up in the North as the child of Southern-born parents, I’d picked up on my parents’ sense of shame. Whether it was over our family’s complicity in the wrongs of the Confederacy or the Jim Crow laws, I don’t […]

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