I've been returning to shame recently. I did some training on working with shame, that I actually used to look at my own sense of shame. I also did a workshop for my course on shame, and this is some of the things I wrote about and thought about during these processes.

Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, described as a moral or social emotion that drives people to hide or deny their wrongdoings.

Definitions vary across fields and cultures but it’s generally agreed that shame is a mechanism linked to avoiding counterproductive choices and cope with challenging situations