Runaway, Shame (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Joseph Meyer Creatives, 2025
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. For most of the life of Joseph Gutierrez, an unimaginable war lives within, a war that never sleeps, never rests. Beginning in childhood, living under the rulership of a harsh, uncaring, grandfather who forced his bigoted, foul mouthed and vulgar persona each day growing up with his mother and sister. Naturally a shy child, growing up in fear, developing a low sense of self, into adolescence and adulthood as the low esteem manifested into the beast it is today, Toxic Shame. Living with shame each day, detailed in different forms experienced daily. Now married with a daughter of his own, navigating shame, depression and anxiety as a devoted father and husband. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Runaway, Shame (Paperback)
- Author
- Joseph Gutierrez
- Publisher
- Joseph Meyer Creatives
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798348578039
A Memoir of Mental Illness, Survival, and the Long Shadow of Toxic Shame
Runaway, Shame is a raw, unflinching memoir about growing up under the weight of verbal abuse, emotional neglect, and unrelenting shame-and the lifelong psychological scars that follow.
In this deeply personal continuation of the author's autobiography The Forgotten Son, the book explores how childhood trauma, particularly toxic shame inflicted by a primary caregiver, can metastasize into depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and a fractured sense of self. Through lived experience, psychological research, and spiritual reflection, the author examines how shame takes many forms-body shame, money shame, career shame, religious shame, relational shame-and how each one quietly erodes a person's ability to feel worthy of love, safety, and belonging.
Structured around the psychology of shame, Runaway, Shame blends memoir with mental‑health insight, tracing the author's journey from a verbally abusive childhood, through a suicide attempt, and into adulthood as a husband, father, educator, and believer still wrestling with the same inner voices planted decades earlier. The book does not offer easy answers or inspirational platitudes. Instead, it offers honesty, language for pain that often goes unnamed, and solidarity for those who suffer in silence.
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