Dr. Mary’s Box Of Emotions

This week's guest is author, professor, and clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Lamia. Dr. Mary shares her deep roots in the mental health field, both through lived experience as well as her formal education and career as a mental health professional.
Our conversation focuses on the emotions grief and shame. Despite being prevalent topics of mental health conversations, both emotions are often misunderstood. Grief comes in many forms and manifests along a spectrum of severity. Dr. Mary describes an especially severe form of grief which she calls, "psychotic grief". Broadly speaking, grief comes from the mind trying to find space for a live event that doesn't fit into our perceived worldview or as a response to an event that forces us to drastically shift our worldview, sometimes very quickly.
Shame, on the other hand, as Dr. Mary describes it, often originates in our early childhood. She explains that there is much to learn from shame as well as grief. After all, most of our feelings are trying to teach us something. "There's not an emotion that doesn't help us learn," says Dr. Mary. The perspectives offered by these emotions have the potential to turn pain into wisdom. By exposing and expressing shame and grief instead of disowning them, we can better connect and relate to others.
To purchase Dr. Mary's books, including The Upside of Shame: Therapeutic Interventions Using the Positive Aspects of a "Negative" Emotion and Grief Isn't Something To Get Over: Finding a Home for Memories and Emotions after Losing a Loved One, visit https://marylamia.com/.
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