This site and my book (The Awfulizer) began through my own personal journey of healing from shame. The idea itself began during a shame group therapy session that I was in. A member of my group was doing work on the figure in her life that she first remembered shaming her. As she was listing all the ways this person made her feel, I remember thinking of a silly name for them- The Awfulizer. After class as I thought about it and realized that is the perfect name for that shami