The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves

by Curt Thompson

Healing shame requires our being vulnerable with other people in embodied actions. There is no other way, but shame will, as we will see, attempt to convince us otherwise.

Shame is not something we “fix” in the privacy of our mental processes; evil would love for us to believe that to be so. We combat it within the context of conversation, prayer and other communal, embodied actions.