by Denise Pass | Dec 23, 2024
Getting up from my pew, a woman grabbed my arm and handed me a book on the sly, “The Confident Woman.” It was around the year 2000 and I did not realize how much I needed that book. Nor did I realize the devastating storm that was about to wreck my world...
by Denise Pass | Nov 27, 2024
Holidays… I think you already know where I am going with this. But just in case… Holidays can be a big invitation for shame…if we let them be! We can feel the need to perform but not receive the acceptance we long for. This can be everything from the...
by Denise Pass | Nov 18, 2024
Giving up is sometimes thought of as shameful. The walk of shame is usually a part of this surrender. But what if surrender is our strongest position? There is no shame in surrender when we surrender to the LORD. Surrender means we rely on God’s strength, not...
by Denise Pass | Nov 10, 2024
Waiting can induce a lot of shame. Waiting to lose weight. Or waiting for a job we really need. Even waiting for health problems or relationship problems to resolve. And the hope that we might bear a child…the list can go on and on. Waiting is hard to do....
by Denise Pass | Sep 9, 2024
Age is nothing to be ashamed about. There I said it. But do you believe it? Combatting age shame is not that simple, unfortunately. We will need to tackle belief systems we have subscribed to in order to tweak our biases against ourselves. Aging is a given. Last week...
by Denise Pass | Aug 23, 2024
Ugh. Looking in the mirror I shook my head with disdain and sighed. I could not make the scale or my size budge no matter how well I tracked what I ate, ate healthily, and exercised. “Well, when you get to a certain age, this is what happens…” Great,...
