Does low self-worth turn your friends into enemies? Learn how the fear of being seen as worthless can sabotage your closest relationships and how to stop pushing people away. This post offers solutions with the help of Henri Nouwen.

When you experience a setback, it’s easy to let your shame keep you from making a comeback. If you want to recover from your setback it’s important to face your shame.

There is an inverse connection between shame and Sabbath, or the ability to rest. Shame causes us to strive for acceptance and never enter the rest that God has for us. But when you stop to rest, you might hear God’s voice of love.

Shame is a painful emotion. As a result, we resort to a variety of coping mechanisms to cover the pain. But is it worth the trouble? This article explores the ways we try to cover our shame and a better alternative.

Outrage and offenses seem to be embedded into our culture today. But could our ease of being offended be more about us than our offender? Learn how shame plays a role in being offended and what you can do about it.

This is the final post in a four-part series focused on how to find deep healing from a significant and profound hurt. The concluding steps involve embracing your new identity in God and welcoming His Spirit fully into your life. Additionally, you will find a list of helpful resources to support you on your healing journey.

This is part three in a four-part series on Deep Hurt, Deep Healing, focusing on how to overcome the persistent pain of shame. In this post, F. Remy Diederich explores how God’s boundless love and unconditional forgiveness serve as the essential starting point for the deep healing process. By embracing these truths, you can begin to reclaim your life fully and move forward towards lasting restoration and peace.

If you have been deeply hurt, have you found deep healing? Our hurt is often rooted in the pain of shame. But what is shame and where did it come from? Why to we suffer from it? This post will explore these questions.

Do you struggle trying to experience or believe in God’s love for you? Despite what you believe about God’s love, your shame might be blocking you from experiencing God’s love.

Parents, how do you handle your child’s failure? What do they see on your face and hear from your lips? How can you become their biggest supporter and the person they turn to in failure? Learn how to reframe your child’s failure.

Toxic church people can dominate your church and ruin the experience for everyone. How do you confront the toxic church member? This post will help you to understand their shame based motivation. Part Two will give you seven steps to confronting them.

There are many experiences that can cause a setback in our lives (exile). One of them is being invalidated by people in power. This post looks at the anger produced in us from being invalidated.

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see someone destined for failure? And does it cause you to want to give up on life? What do you think God sees in you? If you could see what he sees, would that give you hope? Read this post to reflect on this.

Is there hope for the future when you’ve made a mess of your life? Can you ever be forgiven or forgive yourself? This is the second post in a series that looks at these questions and offers answers that will encourage you and bring you hope.

Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, was known as a man who fought corruption with a vengeance only to be exposed as a regular user of a high dollar prostitution ring. When you’ve done something so bad, is there any hope of recovery? This post begins a series looking at that question.

If depression has its grip on you, you are not alone. Bruce Springsteen has dealt with it, along with self-loathing and feeling like an imposter, through his career. How have you dealt with it? This post offers some answers.

Every dysfunction is rooted in a lie of some kind. When you are unable to forgive yourself there are many lies that you might be believing about yourself. Learn what these lies are and how they cause you to mistreat yourself.

On what do you base your sense of worth? If you don’t have a solid basis for defining your worth then the ups and downs of life can rock your world, causing you to doubt your value and feel the pain of shame. This post looks at how you can overcome your self-doubt and insecurities by resting in a “gold-standard” of self-worth.

Thoughts of suicide aren’t rare. The idea has passed through the mind of most people. Maybe you are seriously considering suicide today. This article might help you to change your mind by giving you a ray of hope.