Unprocessed grief and shame can keep us emotionally frozen, unable to truly connect with the people we love. In this post we explore why so many Christians struggle with hidden shame, how it masquerades as depression, and what it means to actually heal from the inside out. Using the Bible's two greatest commandments as our guide, we'll look at how loving yourself is not selfishness, it's the foundation of loving others well. Includes a 7-step guided prayer for healing shame.
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Descending in a Culture Focused on the Ascent
It is challenging to focus on descending into a place where the soul can search and roam, exploring our depths, in a culture so focused on getting better and better.
I never liked fictional stories or anything to feed the creative parts of myself because I always felt I had such little time on the earth and I should spend it reading self-help books and things that help me ascend. “Driven” is a choice word you could say about me for most of my life. But where was I going to go? Where would this ascent lead me?
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