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How Shame Can Be Positive

13 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) explains that shame and guilt function to trigger behavior change by signaling when our actions conflict with our values or when we have harmed ourselves or others. The short video argues these feelings are indicators that we need to realign actions with personal values and repair harm.

Purpose of feelings of shame and guilt are to trigger behavior change. They're indicators to ourselves that we're doing something that doesn't fit with our value system, that we probably need to get in alignment with, that we need to change. It's what happens to us when we feel like we have harmed ourselves, when we've harmed or done something wrong to the people around us or just acted in an incongruent way.