The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance by Spinelli, Frank
The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance by Spinelli, Frank

The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance

What if shame isn't the enemy-but the compass pointing you home?In 2020, Dr. Frank Spinelli sat isolated...
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Author: Frank Spinelli
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Language: English
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The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance by Spinelli, Frank

The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance

$21.54
The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance by Spinelli, Frank

The Shame Compass: A Radical Framework for Trauma Healing and Self-Acceptance

$21.54
Author: Frank Spinelli
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

What if shame isn't the enemy-but the compass pointing you home?

In 2020, Dr. Frank Spinelli sat isolated in his home office during the pandemic lockdown. A physician who had spent fifteen years treating HIV patients, he was now hiding his drinking from his spouse, breaking promises to himself, and convinced he was fundamentally broken.

The COVID-19 pandemic hadn't created his shame-it had simply stripped away every structure holding him together. And when he received a 47-page legal questionnaire demanding he document in clinical detail the childhood sexual abuse he'd survived for the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case, everything collapsed.

Yet in that darkness, he discovered something that changed everything: shame wasn't trying to destroy him. It was trying to guide him.

The Shame Compassis the story of how Spinelli learned to read shame as information rather than indictment. Through unflinching honesty about his descent, recovery, and ongoing fight for justice against the Boy Scouts of America, he developed the C.O.M.P.A.S.S. framework: seven stages that teach readers to use shame as a diagnostic tool rather than evidence of deficiency.

This isn't a book about eliminating shame. It's about learning its language, understanding what it's protecting, and building the capacity to live fully while carrying wounds that may never completely heal. Not freedom from shame-but freedom to live according to your values even when shame is present.

Your compass is waiting. You just have to learn how to read it.



Author: Frank Spinelli
Publisher: Level Tru
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9798898203337

About the Author
Spinelli, Frank: - Frank Spinelli, MD, is a physician, certified health coach, and trauma-informed expert specializing in shame literacy and addiction recovery. Dr. Spinelli's 2013 memoir, Pee-Shy, chronicling his childhood sexual abuse, led to his testimony in the landmark Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
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