Shame in sentence

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Throughout all of this, what I would ultimately realize was that each voice was closely related to aspects of myself, and that each of them carried overwhelming emotions that I'd never had an opportunity to process or resolve, memories of sexual trauma and abuse, of anger, shame, guilt, low self-worth.

It's the stigma inside of others, it's the shame, it's the embarrassment, it's the disapproving look on a friend's face, it's the whispers in the hallway that you're weak, it's the comments that you're crazy.

Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private whispers to a serious and sustained public discussion.

And through the human capacity for abstraction, this shame can settle in.

More recently, researchers have proposed additional entries such as contempt, shame, and disapproval, but opinions vary on how distinct boundaries between these categories can be drawn.

There's no shame associated with sexual behavior.

And when we do come out of those closets, we'll recognize that our fight is not with each other, our fight is with an outdated, Victorian sense of human sexuality that conflates desire with property rights, generates shame and confusion in place of understanding and empathy.

And so what I'm arguing against is the shame that's associated with desires.

I want to do my best to help others live their truth without shame and terror.

Through history, people have gone back into their own pasts, sometimes to a precious time in their life, to their childhood, and often, the mind gravitates in the past to a moment of shame, some sin committed, some act of selfishness, an act of omission, of shallowness, the sin of anger, the sin of self-pity, trying to be a people-pleaser, a lack of courage.

So when I saw that, I said, well, this is such a shame, because it's a very, very good idea.

To shame and blame is so deliciously tempting.

My journey has taken me from a place of fear and shame to one of humility and understanding.

That's a long story filled with intrigue and interfaith guilt and shame.

And if you repeat that one, it's actually restricting your ability to communicate through prosody, which I think is a shame, so let's try and break that habit.

We work together to fill those spaces, to recognize them, to name them, to understand that they don't have to be sources of shame.

Let us fight the shame and talk about it.

The sense of shame and humiliation in their face is palpable.

Human shame is a very powerful motivator, as is the desire to avoid it, and that's the reason why people, when they're in a state of being watched, make decisions not that are the byproduct of their own agency but that are about the expectations that others have of them or the mandates of societal orthodoxy.

Now I'm an activist, a human rights activist, and what drives me is my shame at living in an otherwise great nation that has less than five percent of the world's population but almost 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population.

It doesn't have to be a moment of shame and embarrassment, as it used to be in the past.

But after the feeling of surprise, I felt shame.

The heart cracks under sad gazes, rides on storms that spread fire, lifts chests lowered by shame, knows that it's not just reading and going on, it also wishes to see the infinite blue.

Today, I'm breaking mine, around money, secrecy and shame.

This is what I call money shame.

Dr. Brené Brown, a well-known shame researcher, defines shame as "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging."

Based on this definition, here's how I'm defining money shame: "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging, based on our bank account balances, our debts, our homes, our cars and our job titles."

I believe that we all have money shame, whether you earn 10,000 dollars a year or 10 million, and it's because we give money all of our power.

Here's what it would look like if someone that you love, or you, might have money shame.

I know that we can break free from the grips of money shame, because I did.

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