Jane Shure, PhD, LCSW, a psychotherapist with 30 years of expertise, is a nationally known speaker, workshop leader, and writer, recognized for her work in strengthening resilience in an effort to transform shame and trauma. For over ten years, she has been on the faculty of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health leading personal growth workshops on Calming Your Inner Critic and Your Body/Your Self: Making Peace with Food, Body-Image, and Weight. She trains healthcare professionals, develops self-esteem based curriculum for middle and high school students, and spearheads “ParentTalk,” a program, initiated by A Chance to Heal Foundation, that trains parents to raise kids with healthy attitudes towards food and personal body image.

Named a “Top Doc for Women” by Philadelphia Magazine, Jane is a founding board member of A Chance to Heal Foundation, creator of "The Doctor's In" blog @ JaneShure.com, and co-creator of www.SelfMatters.org.

Jane is co-editor of Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Heart of the Matter, and co-author of “Shame, Compassion and the Journey to Health” in the same volume. In 2003, she co-founded and subsequently, co-authored The Inside/Outside Self-Discovery Program for the Middle School Years: Strategies to Promote Emotional Health, Resilience, and Relationships (ToucanEd, 2009). Jane is married, has two adult daughters, and a golden retriever named Monty.

Blog Entries by Jane Shure

Palin's Magnetic Field

Posted November 18, 2009 | 04:42 PM (EST)


"Give Palin credit. She has a gift for attracting attention," says Allison Steele, a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. With all the discourse about Sarah Palin among Republicans as well as Democrats, I believe that most would agree.

True to her narcissistic core, Sarah Palin is masterful at taking...

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The Hypocrisy of David Letterman

212 Comments | Posted October 6, 2009 | 12:04 PM (EST)


Here we are once again confronted with yet another public figure who postures one way and acts another. Thursday night, after becoming the target of an extortion plot, David Letterman confessed, "Sure enough, contained in the package was stuff to prove that I do terrible things."

In a glib...

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Women's Dislike For Michelle Obama Reveals Middle-School Mentality

9 Comments | Posted September 22, 2009 | 05:08 PM (EST)


Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich recently pondered about why so many women admit to not liking Michelle Obama. Mind you, many of these referenced women are Democrats, so party politics don't seem to be a significant factor. Estrich asserts that race may play a role but not a major one, because...

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To Regulate or Not Regulate Yoga Teacher Training

15 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 01:09 PM (EST)


How is one to make sense of a new move by state governments to regulate yoga teacher training? I have been a student of yoga for over fifteen years, and for the past ten years, have been leading weekend workshops on Calming the Inner Critic at the Kripalu Center for...

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Palin Leaves The Pool

112 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 10:38 AM (EST)


Soon we will discover if Sarah Palin's shocking move to abruptly resign as governor of Alaska was for political or personal gain. Regardless of the answer, we can confirm that this decision is one of self-interest, not the dominion of a leader concerned with supporting and sustaining the people she...

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Lessons Learned from Michael Jackson

16 Comments | Posted June 26, 2009 | 04:10 PM (EST)


Less than 24 hours since the news broke announcing the death of 50 year old Michael Jackson, and many of my clients are expressing all kinds of emotions connected to him. Michael embodied trauma and his actions reflected an inner structure based on compartmentalization and dissociation. The abuse he experienced...

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The Women Who Are There For Us When Our Mothers Are Gone

Posted May 5, 2009 | 04:44 PM (EST)


How do we learn those things that mothers pass on to their daughters once our mothers are no longer alive to do their job? I was one of the lucky ones. How ironic a statement for someone who lost her mother just before her nineteenth birthday. But yes, I was...

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The "I'm Right, You're Wrong" Dynamic

Posted April 14, 2009 | 11:40 AM (EST)


A few weeks ago my buttons got pushed. Oh yes, I sure did get triggered. In March, I was invited to be a guest on the NPR radio program, "Voices in the Family," hosted by Dan Gottlieb. I am a psychotherapist with 30 years of expertise in treating trauma,...

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The Tyranny of Perfection

Posted December 10, 2008 | 11:19 AM (EST)


A few weeks ago I had the privilege of hearing Jane Fonda speak to 700 psychotherapists at a conference sponsored by the Renfrew Center Foundation. This venue, filled with experts in the field of eating disorders, was a most fitting audience for Jane's talk on "The Tyranny of Perfection."

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Propaganda from Within the Mind

Posted May 1, 2008 | 10:57 AM (EST)


Recently a client talked with me about wanting to work for the Obama campaign but found herself held back by an inner voice telling her that she couldn't because she was "not a persuasive person." As we explored this senseless yet spellbinding message, we uncovered the strategy that her oppressive...

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Comparing Ourselves to Others

Posted February 27, 2008 | 05:29 PM (EST)


This morning in yoga class, I glanced over at Judy, and remembered that she went back to law school many years ago. Automatically I thought "Oh, I could never have done that; I'm not smart enough." Fortunately I've reached a point in my life where I realize that it's not...

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