What you Cannot Feel you Cannot Heal
The spell of shame snaps the moment we look ourselves in the face and say, “I love you anyway.”
“We cannot heal what we cannot feel. So without recovery, our toxic shame gets carried for generations.” John Bradshaw
A long time ago, at the dawn of time, Adam decided that he could be God without God. This lie propelled him into an illusion of autonomy, a separate self. And the first thing he experienced about his new reality was shame. …
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