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Healing Shame

Gay Men Going Deeper

CHAPTER

Toxic Shame and Shame

Shame is an emotion that affects all of us. It's a universal human experience to experience shame and inadequacy. And it profoundly shapes the way that we interact with ourselves and the world. The purpose of shame itself is like to control anti social behavior, right? Because people are afraid of being shame. Where it becomes toxic is when we start to apply the messages of wrongness or flawedness to our sense of self. That's when it becomes toxic.

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