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Guilt and shame sometimes get confused for each other.

Guilt can be described as ‘I made a mistake, or I did something bad’. Shame can be described as ‘I am a mistake, I am a bad person’.

Brené Brown defines shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we’ve…

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