Within this 100-page pdf workbook, you will receive articles and teachings on:
Unfolding Historical Relevance & Theory of Shame
Understanding Shame
Why there is no such thing as "Healthy Shame"
Three Keys to Healing Shame
The Fallacies of Allopathic Thinking
The UnShamed Guidebook, included free as part of the UnShamed Course, is now available to purchase on its own!
Along with exercises and prompts to guide you through:
Introduction to Shame & UnShaming
UnShaming Feelings
UnShaming Boundaries
UnShaming Inner Criticism & Internalized Oppression
UnShaming Abuse
UnShaming Trauma
UnShaming Addiction
UnShaming Our Needs
Beyond Individual Healing
These exercises will walk you step by step through the UnShaming process guided by your somatic experience.
Taking time to carefully go through the exercises is truly transformational.
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What Past Students Are Saying…
“I didn’t realize how much I was shaming my fear when it was actually teaching me something quite valuable.”
“Profound and nurturing.”
“Through body based exercises and tools, I learned how to hear my body’s language. This connection, this allowing, this medicine, is the key to integrating and being able to express as me, wholly.”
“This work has changed my life. The word “shaming” hits the deepest chord and resounds through many ugly voices that have tried to control my life.”
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:
David Bedrick is the author of The Unshaming Way, about which Gabor Mate wrote, ”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.”
David is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix for 8 years as well as the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland. He is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he educates therapists, coaches and healers. His embodied way of teaching goes beyond informational, students are regularly brought to tears and face to face with their beauty, power, life path and soul.
David’s passion for studying shame arose from his childhood, growing up with a father who used fists and belts to express his rage and a mother who coped by denying and gaslighting his experience. Forty years of research, teaching, and working with individuals awakened his heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people—sees people's suffering and symptoms as something to “fix" instead of messages that deepen our relationships with ourselves and the world around us. David’s unshaming way treats difficulties as invitations to insight, soul, and the divine unfolding of our lives.
David also writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three additional books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change, You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption. His 5th book will also be published by North Atlantic Books and available early in 2026.