Phoenix Rising- Transmuting Shame into Creativity!

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a leading authority on Healing Shame. She co-created the Healing Shame – Lyon/Rubin Method and has delivered talks, presentations and workshops across the country and around the world, at conferences from Canada to Romania. Sheila has been presenting Healing Shame workshops with her husband, Bret Lyon, for over 10 years; she has been presenting workshops for therapists about working with shame, eating disorders, and child and family trauma for over 25 years.

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Participants will learn how shame affects people differently, how to identify shame in the context of mental health and healing, and how unhealed trauma and shame impact future generations.

In the context of mental health, there is a direct correlation between unhealed shame and mental illness: depression, eating disorders, addiction, dissociation, and even family violence are all impacted by an undercurrent of shame.

Shame impacts how people form and maintain interpersonal relationships and is often implicit in the context of therapy.

By telling parts of her personal story this presentation will explore different ways to address and work with shame, how to counter shame in therapy, and creative approaches to heal and recover from the impact of shame.