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Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past

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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 its 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 dont 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....

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.

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.

If you are looking for a faith-based book on the development and impact of shame in adults this is a must read.

We use this book as a text book for an Overcomer's class. It is very helpful in digging into the depths of broken hearts.

Since I am reviewing this book you may correctly assume that I grew up in a shame based dysfunctional family. I found this book here on amazon and thought it sounded like it might be beneficial to me. Unfortunately I should have read some of the reviews before purchasing it, since I did not realize when I ordered that this is a very Christian-oriented book, and I am not a practicing Christian. I had hoped this book would be advice on a strictly psychological level, and was disappointed to find the author advising that the reader would find relief from their pain through Jesus. Sorry, I don't mean to offend any Christians reading this, but this is not MY path, and after reading the introduction, I scanned through the book and found way too many references to the bible. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that - if that's what works for you then great - but it was not for me and I stopped reading and put the book aside. I guess I'll be posting it for sale soon. I just wish that the description of the book provided by Amazon had been clearer that this book is for Christians, and based on religion and not true psychiatric practice.

Dr. Wilson gets everything just right! I love every page of this book. It helped me work through my abuse and realize personality traits about myself that are directly resulting from abuse. I love the self-discovery it promotes and the overall understanding of how abuse affects people. LOVE IT!

We have been going through this book with a group of 40-50 yr.old folks from our church small group. We all feel that this book has been a worthwhile read no matter what kind of background you have had. Some were resistant when book title and review was proposed for a group vote on what to read several months ago. However, both men and women have gained personal wisdom and insight reading and discussing each chapter. Recomended reading for every adult.