I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How (Seemingly) Small Moments of Embarrassment Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life

By David Allyn

Book Overview

Social scientist David Allyn examines the subtly damaging effects of shame and embarrassment on our everyday lives-and offers powerful advice for identifying and managing them. For many of us, when it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585422576
• ISBN13: 9781585422579
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Insightful, Practical, Excellent Value

David Allyn captures the universal concern for what other people think of us and the deep desire to hide away, embarassed and horrified, when we think we've screwed up. After reading this book, I felt much less alone in my feelings of shame and embarassment and more empathetic toward others. I recommend this book very highly. It's not a psychological treatise -thank goodness. It's easy to read, even funny in places. It's...

Insight into Image Control

"I Can't Believe I Just Did That" offers practical advice about how our efforts at image control (withdrawal, deception, and intimidation) erect barriers in our relationships. Allyn's writing style is very empathetic and you really get the feeling that he understands and cares about readers who suffer from embarrassment and shame. His suggestions regarding romantic relationships (both single and married) are especially...

This book shook the foundation of my heart.

Wow!! A profoundly insightful, powerful, and completely unique take on the subject of "self-confidence" and "embarassment." I highly recommend it... regardless of your level of self confidence, or lack thereof. And, if you have kids... definitely...get this book! Don't wait. Not only did it teach me how to step outside of my own self-punishing shell of shame, guilt, and self-pity, but I also learned how to be a better...