Liberates our Dignity, Empowers All in their Humanity

How much of a role does shame play in your life? How large does it loom for you? If you're a man, do you feel shame over being one? Or...

We humans are social animals, so connection and belonging are essential to our survival. This is what makes shame—the fear of being cast...

As men, we are expected to possess strength, power, and confidence, traits that might appear to be the opposite of vulnerability. But in...

Let me start by owning my shame myself. I feel shame on two levels: personal, for my actions, and group-level, for what others in my...

Our enculturation as soldiers and warriors is one of the main contributors to the violence that we men perpetuate. Since the tribal...

Dan was the founding managing partner of one of San Francisco's top litigation firms. Brilliant and charismatic, he founded the firm at...

Dan’s process echoes what I have seen repeatedly with men (and women)—that allowing and becoming intimate with our shame is the gateway...

In the very first story in the Bible, humans’ “fall from grace” follows our first transgression, eating from the tree of knowledge of...

Unfortunately, this journey into liberation, particularly in the domain of sexuality, is a long and arduous one. The Israelites had to...

Just as the biblical story of Adam and Eve presents shame as the primal wound leading to human suffering, my own first conscious memory...

As children, we are utterly dependent on our caregivers for our survival. Yet, they often use shame, rejection, and the withdrawal of...

Brené Brown tells us that, “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also...

Men, Women and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough by Brene Brown (2012). Boulder, CO: Sounds True. Shame,...