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COMMENTARY: So Why Should I Be Ashamed?

We cover up our shame with layers of other issues that keep us weighted down and unable to really address what we are feeling. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Scholar Brene Brown researches guilt, shame and vulnerability. She says that shame is an “intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” We experience “uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. When we feel dark emotions—when we feel grief or shame or fear, scarcity, disappointment—we feel risk and uncertainty, and we feel emotionally exposed and raw. But vulnerability is also the birthplace of love, joy, belonging, trust, intimacy, creativity, and all of the good things.”

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