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.”

David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he offers facilitation training to deepen the skills and awareness of healers as well as workshops for individuals to further their own personal development. David’s embodied way of teaching is far more than informational, students are often 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. Over thirty years of research, teaching and working with individuals awakened his heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people - seeing our sufferings and ills as something to fix and cure, instead of messages to be understood and invitations to deepen our relationships with ourselves and the world around us. In this way, David understands our difficulties to be “dreams” - invitations to insight, soul, and the divine unfolding of our lives. 


David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change. His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption.  

His upcoming book, The Unshaming Way, will be published by North Atlantic books in 2024.