Unchained: Breaking Free from the Prison of Toxic Shame
Mary Moseley
Shame is one of the most toxic mental and emotional states that we as humans can encounter. It may be no surprise why the enemy uses this against God’s people to persuade us into believing less than what God says. It differs from the guilt that provokes remorse when we do wrong. Shame seeks to imprint itself on our identity, thus evoking a sense of being inherently wrong or bad. As a virulent enemy, shame damages our self-perception, and destroys like the enemy who seeks to do the same (John 10:10). As an inside enemy, shame operates from our memory, to trap us and tether us to past trauma. It...
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