Forgiveness isn’t erasing what someone did, forgetting, or reconciliation, but an act of faith that requires you to live from your true identity. A decisive act that requires great strength, but one that creates greater freedom! 

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Shame wants to undermine your freedom, peace, joy, and hope for the future. A way it does this is through trying to convince you forgiveness isn’t for you. It lies. Forgiveness is for you! Join this week and hear how now is the time to forgive yourself! 

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We start off Season 2 with how to manage our day-in and day-out shame, shame that we may or may not be able to trace back to something specific. The fight to silence shame’s narratives very much begins with the necessity of seeing an accurate image of ourselves. So, join this week as we discuss how to overcome shame through the development of the most accurate view of the self: an imago Dei framework.  

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Repentance is the ultimate path of empathy. It’s where Jesus comes and looks you in the eyes and says, “I know and I love you.” “I know and I have come for you.” “I know and I’m not put off by whatever you think you’re hiding.” Let’s live in repentance, not regret. 

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Truth creates a weight, a value, to what we do and who we are. "Fake it til we make it" removes that weight. Don't let shame tell you that you must remove authenticity and honesty to be strong. It's in our authenticity and honesty, and yes, in our weaknesses, where we experience the power of God. How great it is to live a life where the power of God literally flows through us, not becuase it makes us something that is inhuman, but because it fully embraces our humanity! 

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Living a settled-for-less life sometimes looks like simply giving up. But what if a life lived trying to “keep up” is also a settled for less than what you were made for kind of life? Shame wants to keep us settled one way or another, but it doesn’t have to win. Listen this week as the topic of shame and settling are explored. 

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Join Dr. Megan Clunan this week as she discusses the second of a three part series on the relationships of shame. This week the relationship between shame and fear is addressed. Fear is a natural God-given human reaction. If God made us with the ability to fear, He didn’t give it to us to hurt or hinder us, yet too many of us find we are trapped by fear. We aren’t meant to live trapped lives. Listen this week to learn how in Jesus fear actually becomes freedom!

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Ever feel a bit cynical about your life, our world, or the future? If you do, I want you to be aware that cynicism is one of shame's best friends. They often come into our lives hand in hand. They may be friends, but you don't have to be their friends, you can break free from that relationship! Join me this week as we start a three part series on shame's best friends.

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When shame starts for us in childhood, it dies hard for us in adulthood. It’s so hard to kill when it gets a foothold in our lives as children because childhood is where we learn who we are and how to think about ourselves, our lives, and our future. But our beginning doesn’t have to be our end. Jesus has proclaimed a future over us more powerful than our past. It is for freedom that Jesus came to set you free! 

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Another of shame’s one-liners is, “You’re all alone." When we believe we are all alone we'll begin to live like it. If we live like we are all alone, we will create the very life, the very future that one-liner is proclaiming over us -- after all perception drives reality. Let's rewrite the one-liner to aline with the truth: "You're NOT all alone." As a child of God your reality is one where you are never abandoned, NEVER alone. 

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