How to Tackle Toxic Shame

Where it came from and what to do about it

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“Shame, shame, shame!”

My granny would say as she pointed her index finger at me. That’s all it took for me to stop whatever I was doing.

Touching a knick-knack in a store. Talking over an adult. Sneaking candy from a tin. Rummaging through her drawers.