David Bedrick visited the show to discuss his book "The Unshaming Way" & share insights on embracing emotions, understanding trauma, & setting boundaries.

Embracing Emotions for Personal Growth

• Uunderstanding and embracing one's emotions vs suppress & eliminate them
• Understand the intelligence behind these emotions & experiences vs trying to fix them
• Benefits of amplifying & integrating these emotions, rather than suppressing them

Childhood Experiences and Self-Belief Impact

• How shame manifested in physical symptoms such as stomach aches & anger, which were then pathologized & dismissed by his family
• The importance of understanding what kind of person one is & what they are meant to be

Understanding Natural Essence and Strengths

• The need for witnesses to the violence people experience, whether subtle or overt
• The impact on a person's self-worth & ability to express themselves.

Understanding and Embracing Boundaries

• Boundaries are not just psychological concepts, but also physical impulses that help us avoid harm
• People struggle with boundaries because they have been shamed or conditioned to suppress their natural instincts. Unshaming the natural impulse to set boundaries is a key to healing &maintaining a healthy system

Emotional Authenticity and Self-Acceptance

• Why to expect pushback when setting boundaries
• Surrounding oneself with supportive people makes this process easier
• How unshaming oneself allows for greater self-worth and self-acceptance

Addressing Trauma and Shame in Relationships

• The importance of compassionate & protective responses
• How self worth is influenced

Authenticity and Vulnerability in Leadership

They emphasized the need for leaders who can hold space, witness, & share their own struggles & imperfections. OUR GUEST

David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He grew up in a family marked by violence. While his father’s brutality was physical and verbal, his mother’s denial and gaslighting had its own covert power. This formative context introduced David early to the etiology of shame and instilled an urge to unshame.

Professionally, he was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he trains therapists, coaches and healers and offers workshops for individuals to further their own personal development.

David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change.

His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption. His new book, The Unshaming Way, was published by North Atlantic books in November 2024.

Links:

Order The Unshaming Way: https://a.co/d/dYTwNa7

Website: https://www.davidbedrick.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/david.bedrick/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DBedrick

Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/contributors/david-bedrick-jd-dipl-pw

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