{"id":71,"date":"2009-02-28T14:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-02-28T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T14:15:32","slug":"guilt-good-shame-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/guilt-good-shame-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"guilt good-shame bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From recent reading, James M. Bowler Shame: A Primary Root of Resistance to Movement in Direction,\u00a0<\/em>“Presense” (Vol 3, # 3, Sept. 1997)<\/p>\n

“Guilt is associated specifically with an action<\/em>\u2013something one has said or done. Shame, on the other hand, refers to the feeling<\/em> one has about one’s very self… believing one has a\u00a0fundamental\u00a0flaw.” (p. 26) (italics mine)<\/p>\n

We need (a sense of) guilt to correct ourselves and change our ways, but shame is damaging, and hinders progress. Guilt is about our doing. Shame is about our being.<\/p>\n

All people struggle with shame at some point in their process of growth. Feel free to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From recent reading, James M. Bowler Shame: A Primary Root of Resistance to Movement in Direction,\u00a0“Presense” (Vol 3, # 3, Sept. 1997) “Guilt is associated specifically with an action\u2013something one has said or done. Shame, on the other hand, refers to the feeling one has about one’s very self… believing one has a\u00a0fundamental\u00a0flaw.” (p. 26) … Continue reading guilt good-shame bad?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[1559,1597,2534,3054],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-guilt","tag-healing","tag-personal-growth","tag-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}