There's different parts of the brain that are activated with shame. The research is a little more tricky in the past five years or so, they began to actually study kind of neurologically what's going on with people when they are experiencing guilt versus shame. Instead of guilt says, I did something wrong,. Shame says, I am something wrong. It actually, and this is a number of researchers have made this connection that it takes the act that you view as wrong. And then it generalizes it to like who you are at the identity level.
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Ryan offers his research and findings on beginning to understand shame in a new way. We’re discussing the difference between guilt and shame, the dangers of equating these two emotions, and what you can do to combat shame, instead of continuing to feed it.
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