Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

Shame is the root of all addictions.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.