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31 Days (October), Personal, Vulnerability Posted onOctober 15, 2015November 14, 2015

Why Vulnerability?

So far this month I’ve talked a lot about shame and what we do to try to cope and protect ourselves from it. We put […] Read More

31 Days (October) Posted onOctober 14, 2015

On Empathy…

Empathy is a strange and powerful thing. There is no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, […] Read More

31 Days (October), Personal, Shame Posted onOctober 13, 2015November 14, 2015

Combating Shame

Everyone experiences shame and there is no way we can eliminate it from our lives. As Brown puts it, “As long as we care about […] Read More

31 Days (October), Personal, Shame, Vulnerability Posted onOctober 12, 2015November 14, 2015

How we protect ourselves – the Vulnerability Armor

I’m taking the information I list in this post from Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly and I’ll list source information at the bottom of this post. […] Read More

31 Days (October), Faith, Grace, Personal Posted onOctober 11, 2015November 14, 2015

Believing grace

Yesterday I talked about grace. The challenge is to believe it. There’s something Jesus said: “Then they asked him, ‘What must we do to do […] Read More

31 Days (October), Faith, Grace, Personal, Shame, Vulnerability Posted onOctober 10, 2015November 14, 2015

Why Grace is a big deal to me

For any of you who have followed my blog for a while, you’ll know that grace is a big deal to me. It’s a very […] Read More

31 Days (October), Grace, Personal, Shame Posted onOctober 9, 2015November 14, 2015

My “aha” moment

I’ve written about watching Brene Brown’s TEDx talk on “The Power of Vulnerability”. This is the part that blew my mind: Wait what?!?!? They just […] Read More

31 Days (October), Church, Faith, Shame, Vulnerability Posted onOctober 8, 2015November 14, 2015

Light and Darkness (and how they fit with vulnerability and shame)

I love the concepts of “light” and “darkness” and they are strewn all over the Bible. John in particular uses these metaphors. Here’s a few […] Read More

31 Days (October), Faith, Shame Posted onOctober 7, 2015November 14, 2015

Shame enters the world

Take a look at this: “Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.” [emphasis mine] (Genesis 2:25, NLT) “At […] Read More

31 Days (October), Personal, Shame Posted onOctober 6, 2015November 14, 2015

Shame Triggers

While the felt experience of shame is the same for men and women (Brene Brown calls it the “warm wash of shame”), what triggers shame […] Read More

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