Ever wonder how childhood trauma follows us into adult relationships? Shame and self-blame can shape behaviors, and healing requires unlearning them.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 03 - Good Health & Wellbeing. Embarrassment, shame, and guilt are related but also distinct emotions. Embarrassment arises from ...

Guilt and shame are universal human emotions that shape how we navigate our social worlds. Though often lumped together, they are distinct in their experience and function. Guilt arises from our ...

Years ago at a forgiveness class for Stanford Continuing Studies, one of us met a man who once had a wife and two children and a good job. But he threw it all away because of a gambling addiction that ...

In his new book, psychologist Chris Moore challenges popular assumptions about guilt and explains why this uncomfortable ...

Time is slippery. Some people seem to have a built-in clock, always on time, always ready. Others feel like minutes vanish, hours speed up, and deadlines sneak past with barely a warning. This can ...

Diet culture is everywhere, often putting people in a perpetual cycle of restricting what they eat to try to lose weight, then indulging after feeling deprived, followed by heaps of guilt and shame — ...

Survivor’s guilt, experts caution, will for many be the new normal. It is a “constellation of feelings” — “despair, hopelessness, guilt, shame.” Combating survivor’s guilt involves understanding what ...

Remember Gomer Pyle, the hapless and saintly TV marine? His philosophical lexicon was limited, but it included two all-purpose expressions: Surprise, surprise, surprise! and Shame, shame, shame! The ...

"Mom guilt is the number one thing I see as a psychologist who works with moms every day," Caitlin Slavens, BAACS, MC, R Psych, a registered psychologist and one-half of the popular Instagram account ...

Guilt and shame – not hope for recovery – are among the most common reasons terminally ill cancer patients continue with minimally beneficial treatments at the end of life, according to Rutgers ...