Week 7: Moving From Shame to Embrace

Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal. Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.

~ John O’Donohue, Anam Cara

Entering the shame spiral is all too familiar for me, as I shared about in From Burned Out to Beloved’s chapter ‘Moving From Shame to…