Shame. It traps you in chains of depression & despair. It’s a thousand pound weight that constantly reminds you that not only have you done something bad, but that you ARE bad. It convinces you that if someone got to know you & found out what you’re really like, they would turn away in disgust. It tells you you’re unloveable and unworthy, thats there’s no hope, you can never change, that this is just who you are. It keeps you in toxic cycles you can’t escape from. But what if I told you that you CAN escape? That it’s possible to be free from shame? I was set free. You can be too.
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Shame. It traps you in chains of depression & despair. It’s a thousand pound weight that constantly reminds you that not only have you done something bad, but that you ARE bad. It convinces you that if someone got to know you & found out what you’re really like, they would turn away in disgust. It tells you you’re unloveable and unworthy, thats there’s no hope, you can never change, that this is just who you are. It keeps you in toxic cycles you can’t escape from. But what if I told you that you CAN escape? That it’s possible to be free from shame? I was set free. You can be too.
My friend Luke shares the pain he felt growing up of never feeling like he was good enough. He grew up poor and came from a big family and was always lacking what everyone else seemed to have. He was rejected and bullied for not being cool enough, so he turned to drugs and alcohol in order to get approval from his peers and from the ladies. But the very thing he turned to filled him with even more shame and brought him even more problems when he became strung out on anxiety, panic attacks and suicidal thoughts. When he reached his breaking point, he discovered something that would break shame off of him forever. Tune in to hear how Luke got free from shame and how you can too.
My friend Filipe shares what it’s like as a man to have a deep longing for healthy intimacy and connection, and how most of his life he was shamed for it and made to feel like something was wrong with him, that he was perverted, dirty or homosexual just for wanting to have deep relationships with men. Shame kept him isolated, not knowing who he was, and ultimately wanting to end his own life. Listen in as Filipe shares his amazing journey of healing and how he now experiences a life free from shame and lives in the joy of knowing he is accepted and wonderfully made.
Depending on your perspective of the Bible and the lens you read it through, spirituality will either lead you into deep chains of shame or liberating and empowering freedom. Join me and my special guest today in our discussion of how changing what we have always believed is the key to transformation.
Spirituality can be a source of shame exacerbation or a source of shame resilience. For me, most of my life, my understanding of the Bible caused me to live with a lot of shame. I never thought this was a problem, in fact I thought that shame was a normal and expected part of the “Christian life”. It wasn’t until I met someone who had a completely different understanding/view of spirituality and the Bible and how this person was experiencing a level of freedom that I never experienced, that a completely new paradigm opened up for me
In this episode we will discuss possible origins of shame and how this affects how we approach it. I also share some excerpts from Dr. Brené Brown’s book “I Thought It Was Just Me, (But It Isn’t)”. She has been a shame researcher for many years and has many things to say about shame vs. guilt, the myth of constructive shame, and spirituality.
The first step in getting free from shame is learning to identify the lies that shame would have us believe. How we live our lives stems from what we believe. It could be that our beliefs bused against ourselves are keeping us stuck in cycles we don’t want to be in
Today we talk about what the shame cycle is and why we get stuck in it. Tune in to hear Gracie explain how shame tricks us into doing things we don’t want to do, and to hear a special guest share his story
In this episode we talk about the problem with shame. What’s the big deal anyway? Tune in as Gracie shares some examples from her own life about how shame impacted her romantic relationships. You may be surprised at how shame is at the root of a lot more issues in your life than you realize.
Shame. It traps you in chains of depression & despair. It’s a thousand pound weight that constantly reminds you that not only have you done something bad, but that you ARE bad. It convinces you that if someone got to know you & found out what you’re really like, they would turn away in disgust. It tells you you’re unloveable and unworthy, thats there’s no hope, you can never change, that this is just who you are. It keeps you in toxic cycles you can’t escape from. But what if I told you that you CAN escape? That it’s possible to be free from shame? I was set free. You can be too.
