Shame Quotes

“Shame, according to the renowned psychologist, Erik Erikson, in Identity, Youth, and Crisis, is a learned experience, a diversion taught to infants by their parents.”
― Vicki Underland-Rosow, Shame: Spiritual Suicide

“Lying is almost always preferred to the possibility of experiencing shame.”
― Vicki Underland-Rosow, Shame: Spiritual Suicide

“The fear of abandonment, especially to a vulnerable child is equivalent to death.”
― Vicki Underland-Rosow, Shame: Spiritual Suicide

“Shame, according to the renowned psychologist, Erik Erikson, in Identity, Youth, and Crisis, is a learned experience,”
― Vicki Underland-Rosow, Shame: Spiritual Suicide

“people are unable to process new information while they are experiencing shame.”
― Vicki Underland-Rosow, Shame: Spiritual Suicide