On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.

On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.

A collection of healing meditations for us and our beautiful planet. Profound ground-breaking techniques for personal and planetary healing, gifted by whales and outerdimensional beings. The ancient dragon energies are returning into our consciousness now to assist with the ascension process of the Earth. At the same time the whales offer a heart wisdom that brings invaluable insights for the future of humankind. Madeleine Walker has travelled the globe connecting and communicating with whales and dolphins in their natural habitat. The very essence of her encounters is channelled into these healing meditations for our beautiful planet and ourselves. * Learn to change and heal your past, present and future DNA with the whale mother Nazkaa. * Be guided to create healing portals for the whales and all ocean life. * Meet the dragons... find your dragon heart and journey with them through the multiverse. * Travel with the golden dolphins, Narwhals and sea dragons deep into the inner oceans to heal the earth and meet your infinite self.

This divination card deck brings empowerment and inspiration in tune with the rhythms of nature and the planet from the animal kingdom. Personally gleaned and intuited by Madeleine Walker as she traveled far and wide to meet and communicate with both wild species and domestic animals, these missives "whisper" the animals' tidings of love and compassion and dispatch their greatest wish - for humanity to find reempowerment so we can finally integrate into interspecies unification. Daily usage of different animal cards enables access to profound messages that pinpoint current, troublesome life situations and foster renewed self-belief and release of self-doubt. Reproductions of the 45 lavishly illustrated cards and expanded interpretations contained in the companion booklet further enhance the experience.

Animals come back to be with us lifetime after lifetime, to heal trauma from their own past lives and ours. In this book on karmic healing we meet animals who have changed the lives of their human companions. Their message is that love is eternal and undying and an Exchange of Love. Many animals are reunited with owners from past lives and will flag up emotional issues through their own behaviour.A specialist with treating emotional trauma in competition horses, whose owners require optimum performance, Madeleine Walker unravels their painful experiences in this life and past lifetimes and makes us aware of their companionship as they try to assist our healing - even manifesting our disease in their own bodies. No other book examines the past life connections between humans and our animals and the healing potential for us. Madeleine Walker is an animal psychic and shamanic healer who also offers healing to human clients. Her research has taken her to Egypt, The Azores and USA to study the knowledge of ancient cultures.

Astonishing insight into animal knowledge and its powerful impact. Going beyond the standard pet communication book, this adventure delivers messages from many different wild and sacred animal species. Voices of the white buffalo, the humpback whale, the white lions of Timbavati South Africa, orcas, and bears all speak through the author, who embarked on a spiritual journey across several continents in search of this wisdom from animals. In turns moving, empowering, and entertaining, it includes practical ways to implement the animal knowledge, conveying vital messages to help save humanity and the natural world.