Steve Finn

Shame is a really painful, affective state. Many researchers think it is the most painful emotion that human beings can have. There are people who shame is so embedded in their personality where they just live with a basic story about themselves which they may or may not be aware of. When you were in an intense state of shame, we're almost in an altered state. People's eyes will drop. It's what I call kind of a barrier experience where you become cut off from the world around you and you take everything personally. That's a shame state. And guilt is very different. Guilt is the feeling of remorse and that you've done something wrong, but that you're necessarily