Shame usually accompanies guilt.

 It's an emotion that holds us down, like a pressing weight. It binds us to our past like a ball and chain.  It does not know how to forgive.  Perhaps it does not even believe in forgiveness!

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Shame "has no shame"

It is content to destroy our self-worth and identity, and to burden us with self-loathing and self-destruction. 

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Learning to process our shame; bringing it into "the light" and   acknowledging our emotions around shame - breaks it's power over us.