Healing From Shame
Part of Deep Clean
April 4, 2021

Deep Clean: Week 1
*Healing From Shame*

Adam and his wife were both naked, and
they felt no shame. —Genesis 2:25 (NIV)
Guilt believes, “I

bad”
Shame believes ” I bad.”

We feel guilty for WHAT WE DID. We feel ashamed for WHO WE ARE.

Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection. —Brené Brown

Shame Based Thinking
1. We are

to perfectionism
2. We are critical of , which drives us to be come critical of .
3. We us self-defeating thoughts to ourselves from disappointment

The only wat to heal from shame is to move the focus from what I’m not, to who Christ is.

…For the joy set before him he [Jesus]
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God —Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)

I am not……. Because of Christ, I am…….!

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “ Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt. —Joshua 5:9 (NLT)