Spirituality can be a source of shame exacerbation or a source of shame resilience. For me, most of my life, my understanding of the Bible caused me to live with a lot of shame. I never thought this was a problem, in fact I thought that shame was a normal and expected part of the “Christian life”. It wasn’t until I met someone who had a completely different understanding/view of spirituality and the Bible and how this person was experiencing a level of freedom that I never experienced, that a completely new paradigm opened up for me