Description
A book for psychotherapists and their clients – and for anyone who wants to make the journey from shame to unshame.
Carolyn Spring, author of ‘Recovery is my best revenge: my experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder’, documents in this, her second book, her journey through psychotherapy to heal and resolve trauma-based shame, which had resulted in a catastrophic mental breakdown in her early thirties and an eventual diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID). She then embarked on a nearly ten year journey of psychotherapy through which she came to realise that shame had actually saved her life. However, the cost to this protective function is a life lived dissociated from feelings of joy, connection, love and belonging.
This book explores Carolyn’s pathway towards ‘Unshame’. Suitable for both professionals and survivors alike, it is a fascinating insight into that most private and mysterious of places – the therapy room, and the mind.
It’s relatable for every human.
We could all notice a little more and respond instead of react.
I’m looking forward to practicing what I’ve learnt.
I’ve not read anything by Carolyn Spring that doesn’t make sense to me. She has a way of writing as if you’re having a conversation in the same room. Obviously sensitive material but I highly recommend this book
This book has been a lifeline in a sea of trauma recovery. If you have had trauma in your past or are in the thick of it now, please read this book.
It will change how you think about yourself and how to navigate the feelings and emotions that spring up and threaten to crush you.
This book will help you.
You deserve to be helped.
Brilliant book and very helpful. Thank you.
I learned so much about myself as a counsellor and just me. I have highlighted so much and made notes. Loved it.