Shame is the underpinning of almost all distress, almost all emotional issues, almost all reluctance to claim your life fully. Knowing this, then you know that there is something you can do about it. Shame is what holds us back from self care, from discovering who we are and living it, from having boundaries around how we will interact with others. Releasing shame allows going from being a sheep to someone making their own decisions, who automatically lives with meaning and purpose. More than a glass half full, there is no glass. No external measure of goodness because it is all good. Sounds too good to be true? Walk with me through the shaming going on around us every day all day. See it for what it is so you can stop joining in. Stop shaming, refuse to be shamed, stop gossiping, stop criticizing. Instead seeing, and deciding the best course of action. And doing it. First we all need to rip ourselves loose from the control this dreadful emotion has on us. This book shows you the hundreds of ways shame influences our lives, and every one else's. The second section then walks through the process of healing ourselves from the harm caused. Shame can be put in its place, seen for what it is, and released from our cells.

Shame is a subject many want to avoid. Believe me, from my own experience whatever pain it takes to journey through the process is so much better than staying stuck in an endless cycle that keeps you sick. The cloak of shame becomes our garment whether we did something shameful or something shameful was done to us. Shame is wrought with lies from the enemy and he uses those lies to rob us not only of our true identity but our destiny as well. It is amazingly possible to defeat the "shame game" as evidenced in Phillippians 4:13 which tells us "We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us". This book will guide you on your personal journey of shedding shame as you renew your mind. It is designed to be used as a teaching tool, with teacher's notes and homework for each chapter. I hope you find freedom, as I did, when I walked through this same journey. It is so worth the process! Educated by the "school of hard knocks", Roxine knows a little bit about the shame game. She continues to be a seeker on her own journey and has answered the call to help others find hope in the inner healing process. Her efforts to help others includes speaking, co-facilitating women's soul woundedness groups, and teaching ladies Bible studies. Currently she is serving as a prayer minister, manages a prayer group for inner healing and co-leads a school of inner healing prayer through her church. Roxine lives in South Georgia with her husband Richard and their dog Lucy.

This is a story of a girl who was shrouded by shame and how she came into freedom overcoming the shame in her life. It is a very powerful story which will reach out and bring freedom to others.

Freedom From the Shame of the Past is applicable to anyone who is trying to escape from the past. For even the Christian, there is a strange value system that keeps us bound in chains. We value ourselves in a way that is based on what we've done or what's been done to us. Mike Fehlauer shares insight from his own struggle with sin, sharing scriptural principles to help us understand our true value. The author found himself testing the waters and venturing into the world of sexual sin and pornography. Time and again leading the double life took its toll. His sexual addiction, shame, and feelings of disgust and self-loathing plagued him. One night his personal darkness took him to the pit of despair. With the cold steel of his gun barrel pressed against his skull, Mike felt alone and without hope. Discover how God literally worked a miracle in the lives of Mike and his family and helped him break the bondage of that horrible stronghold and begin his life anew. Readers will come to realize that nothing they could do will ever outstrip the power and finality of the cross.

Freedom or Death is a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst delivered at Hartford, Connecticut - November 13, 1913. It was later transcribed and issued as a pamphlet. The speech was dedicated to the issues of suffrage movement.

This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form of free speech that was practised by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, reverence and shame. It was thus an essential ingredient of the egalitarianism of that regime. That freedom was challenged by the consequences of the rejection of shame (aidos) which had served as a cohesive force within the polity. Through readings of Socrates's trial, Greek tragedy and comedy, Thucydides's History, and Plato's Protagoras this volume explores the paradoxical connections between free speech, democracy, shame, and Socratic philosophy and Thucydidean history as practices of uncovering.

In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.