- This is the first mindfulness-based book specifically about overcoming shame and self-loathing.- Shame is at the core of addiction, social anxiety, depression, andmany personality disorders.In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, Steve Flowers, a prominent mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, and Bob Stahl, author of the bestselling Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, help readers use mindfulness to move past the universal feelings of shame and self-loathing and develop greater confidence and self-esteem.