As the second account of creation in Genesis concludes, the narrator leaves us with a striking detail: “The man and his wife ...

Or they may hide their real thoughts and feelings and present an inauthentic version that they believe others want them to be ...

Shame results from a painful perception of the self as failing, inadequate, or defective. The root of the word means to cover or hide. We try so hard to hide failure, inadequacy, and personal ...

For others, it keeps them trapped in negative feelings. The stronger the shame, the more we try to hide it from others. This is precisely what gives shame so much destructive power over us.

and when I stopped hiding in shame, I found community like never before. I decided that while I didn’t have to share everything with everyone — that’s not vulnerability anyway — I would no ...

When I began to tell the truth about my life (and I don’t mean over-sharing or telling everyone everything, but rather the truth about depression and eating disorders and shame, etc.) and when I ...