In this special release episode, guest speaker Fr Dave Tremble MGL weaves together The Ugly Duckling, the Passion of Jesus, and his own story. Locate your own story within the Suffering Servant’s, and explore the topic of shame under a new gaze. 

Recommended books by Dr Brene Brown

• The Gifts of Imperfection
• Daring Greatly
• Dr Brene's TED talk "The power of vulnerability": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o

Excerpt from episode: "In her bestselling book The Gifts of Imperfection, Dr Brene Brown describes shame as always involving a social context. Shame is not just as one of many bad feelings we have, but the feeling of being unworthy of belonging, of other people. Shame isolates us from community. Now this is bad enough when it’s just between people, but even worse when shame isolates us from God … making us feel unworthy of him. Okay so that’s the bad news! What’s the good news? Well… the good news, or the bearers of good news today will be our guest speaker, one Fr Dave Tremble ably assisted by a little duckling"