CLASSIC: Healing The Shame That Binds You

"When you're shame-based you feel like your flawed and defective as a human being and so you have to develop mood alteration, because to be inside of me is just too painful, so I've got to alter my mood, and that's where you understand 'shame' as the basis of all addictions."

Guilt is about 'doing, shame is about 'being.'

Guilt corrects future behavior. Shame insures future mistakes. Guilt states "what I did was bad." Shame states "I am bad."

Guilt is solution-focused and problem-specific. Shame is nothing more than globally evaluating yourself as deficient, defective and dysfunctional and there is no solution to that problem.