Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past

An excellent book! The author pulls from her own personal and professional experience to provide insight for healing past wounds of the heart. Her advice is based on sound, biblical knowledge and she gives scriptural foundation to promote healing. A MUST READ for any who truly want to grow towards the full potential God intends for us as Christians.

This book shows us how to change from shame to grace. Shame is the feeling not that I have DONE something wrong, but that I AM something wrong. Shame warps our lives and makes us unable to be good parents. The author tells us how to find grace instead -- and grace will change our lives! This book includes first-person stories that give it a ring of truth.

Sandra Wilson does an excellent job in constantly referring you to pray for enlightenment and healing throughout the entire book. Her use of scriptures inspired me to put down the book and pick up the Bible...more validation that this book truly reveals a Christian approach/guidelines to healing past issues. While difficult facing the realistic pictures of your past, this book inspires you to pray for healing and to lean on God to help you through this time. Through many tears and much anger, it took me about a month to finish the book. But once I picked it back up, my perception changed and truly found this to be one of the better books I've read during my journey of healing. Again...it's a difficult process to begin, but you will not be disappointed in the end.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has grown up in a dysfunctional family (specifically abusive families), and is interested in learning about the psychology of their past experiences. It took a while to read, as there were many times of prayer, reflection, and tears. I would also highly recommend this book to you if your spouse grew up in a dysfunctional family. Sometimes it?s hard for us to talk about our past experiences, and this is a great way to hear, see, and feel the hidden emotions we have and don?t always want to talk about.

Painful to read but so necessary to identify the wrong thinking that occurs when one has been shamed. It helps you to face the truth and make a commitment to practical and necessary changes in wrong thinking. It took a long time to finish because it took episodes of courage to pick it up again. It would be so easy to stuff all those emotions under. Without God's love and care that is where they would remain. Thank you for Sandra Wilson for giving him a voice....