Breaking Free of the Shame Trap: How Women Get Into It, How Women Get Out of It

by Christine Brautigam Evans

"Compassionate and empowering...A much needed addition to the shame literature...An important book about the shaming of girls and women in our culture without disregarding the pain of boys and men."... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345387031
• ISBN13: 9780345387035
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

This Book Is Relevant to Men as Well

As a man, I found this book to be very relevant to shame issues personally and "societally." It also helped me to better understand my wife's issues with shame, particularly those that society seemingly arbitrarily assigns to women in general. Evans covers this topic comprehensively with a lot of food for thought. I have read some of Bradshaw's work on this and found this book almost entirely compatible with his thinking but even deeper in coverage.

A very liberating book.

This book takes shame out of the closet so we can hold it up and take a good look at it. It shows us how unrecognized shame has been making us feel bad and sabotaging our relationships. Most helpful for me were the messages that there is nothing innately wrong with us, and that recognizing and dealing with our shame can restore self-esteem and well-being. Only a few pages into this practical and compassionate book, I knew I was reading something that could help millions of women.