I’m really excited to share this with you—
This is the first (of hopefully many) podcast episodes with my amazing husband, Anees Benferhat. We’re bringing some of the healing-centered pillow talk that happens in our home out into the world to you.
In this one, we talk about shame and motivating social action.
It was sparked by an awesomely thoughtful question I received in response to my recent piece, Why it’s so hard to speak out and what we can do about it, where I made the case for alternatives to shame-based models of activism.
The reader asked:
Is shame always bad? What even is it?
Especially with everything going on, is there ever a time when shaming people into doing something is the right way to go about doing it?
We took this gift-of-a-question and ran with it. Thank you for it!
For those who don’t know Anees, he’s a deeply skilled psychiatrist and psychotherapist based here in NYC. Skilled not just because of his years of training and clinical experience—but because of his heart and ability to attune.
He’s a true healing-centered practitioner, bringing the best of what we know about relational neuroscience and emotions to every person he works with.
I’m so lucky to have him to talk shop with about all things healing and emotions—both at home in our free time and now here with you.
We hope you enjoy.
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