You can't heal trauma
without healing
shame.
Or addiction. Or anxiety. Or body shame. Or broken relationships. Or the critic in your head.
Shame is at the root of all of it.
An embodied approach to trauma healing that listens to — rather than fixes — the parts of you you've been taught to hide.
A workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from shame.
Stop fixing yourself.
Start understanding yourself.
Most healing approaches treat your symptoms, struggles, and difficult behaviors as problems to be corrected. UnShaming takes a fundamentally different view.
When you UnShame, you stop viewing the things you're ashamed of as broken parts that need to be fixed. Instead, you begin to see them as invitations to embrace your wholeness — doorways to insight, soul, and a deeper relationship with yourself.
The result is a life liberated from self-judgment, connected to your inner intelligence, and attuned to a profound sense of wellness.
Shame is not the problem — it's a messenger
The things you've been taught to hide carry intelligence. UnShaming helps you hear what they're saying.
Trauma lives in the body and the story
Healing requires working with both — the somatic experience and the narrative that keeps you stuck.
Your symptoms hold your medicine
Codependency, addiction, anger, illness — each carries wisdom when approached with the right framework.
Shame addressed at the root speeds the rest of the work
UnShaming is one of the most impactful and fast-working approaches available — for individuals and practitioners alike.
Find Your Path
Whether you're seeking personal healing, deepening your clinical practice, or ready for full certification — there's a clear starting point for you.
New to UnShaming
Start with the Foundations of UnShaming Bundle — a 2-hour training plus 100-page guidebook that gives you a real, embodied introduction to this work.
Therapists, Coaches & Healers
Bring a shame-informed, trauma-sensitive lens to your client work. Deepen your clinical toolkit with professional seminars and masterclasses designed for practitioners.
Certification
A rigorous 10-month live training for practitioners ready to become fully certified in the UnShaming methodology. Application-only. 2026 cohort now forming.
A lifetime devoted to
understanding shame
I'm the author of The Unshaming Way, a teacher, counselor, and attorney. I founded the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies, where I educate therapists, coaches and healers worldwide.
"In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it."
— Gabor Maté, MDMy passion for studying shame arose from my own childhood. Forty years of research and working with thousands of individuals awakened my heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people — treating suffering as something to fix, rather than a message that deepens our relationship with ourselves.
My embodied way of teaching goes beyond informational. Students are regularly brought face to face with their beauty, power, and soul purpose.
What people are saying
From therapists and coaches to individuals seeking personal healing — the UnShaming work changes people.
"David Bedrick is a gentle warrior. His methodology is phenomenal. The most kind, soft, powerful vehicle I've ever encountered to heal trauma and release shame. I wish everyone would adopt this way of helping people through pain."
"Working with David has allowed me to see people in their wholeness and aid them in integrating parts of themselves they may have previously judged or shunned."
"The training has not only revolutionized my coaching skills but also transformed me as a person: I feel more compassionate, more powerful, more authentically myself."
"Wow, that was INCREDIBLE. So many aha's — personally and for my work with clients."
"If the whole world had David as their witness, the world would be healed. He has such deep presence and genuinely cares."
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