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What You Can’t Feel, You Can’t Heal: Overcoming Cain's Bane

What You Can’t Feel, You Can’t Heal: Overcoming Cain's Bane

To accept yourself means to die to your false self-identity.

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May 27, 2025
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“We cannot heal what we cannot feel. So without recovery, our toxic shame gets carried for generations.” John Bradshaw

A long time ago, Adam believed he could be God without God. This lie propelled him into the illusion of autonomy—a separate self. And the first thing he experienced in this new reality was shame. The separate self always feels shame beca…

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