Restoring Hearts Blog

“Without healthy and loving relationships, it is difficult to experience joy and easy to experience shame.” Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw God...

“Shame’s power can be broken. In fact, its power has been broken...by the love of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen.” Christine Caine...

“Every truth without exception – and whoever may utter it – is from the Holy Ghost.” St. Thomas Aquinas I love to learn and my favorite...

“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.” Jonathan Edwards There are primarily two voices we can choose to listen to:...

“We don’t ultimately become who we are; we unbecome who we are not.” Kelly Flanagan Deconstruction is the act of tearing down in order to...

“Our need to be seen, soothed, safe, and secure never stops.” Dr. Curt Thompson Much of our trauma, shame, judgments, and vows that keep...

“Evil seeks to devour beauty at every turn, and it does so by wielding the traumatic experience of shame as its primary weapon.” Curt...

“It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.” Phillips Brooks Oh, Father, heal me of my...

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer Last week I wrote about shame. Our knee-jerk reaction...

“Healing shame requires our being vulnerable with other people in embodied actions.” Curt Thompson Shame is one of the enemy’s most used...