Unburdened is a multi-media project,
including a co-released book and film, centered around shame and its impact on the individual and collective experience.The book includes Edlin’s short stories of fiction, along with essays focused on each interviewee from the film. Edlin went into this project searching for an answer to the question, what does it mean to find ultimate inner freedom?
Sharing one’s darkest secret with one’s closest lover or friend, priest, sponsor, therapist– we have been doing this since the beginning of time, since we realized that shame has a tendency to haunt. We have always desired to be unburdened. Throughout her intimate filmed conversations, she learns that there is no one way to get there—that seeking shamelessness is, in fact, a mystifying, forever journey.
