Keys to overcoming shame

<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What are the keys to overcoming shame? Shame and abuse can hold you back and result in living with worry, fear, and anxiety. One key to overcoming shame is faith in God and self-acceptance </strong></span><span style= "font-size: 12pt;"><strong>through His grace.</strong></span> </h2> Overcoming shame can seem impossible. One has to recognize shame is at the root of the experiences, feelings, and thoughts before action can be taken. <h3>About Gina Rolkowski</h3> <p>Gina helps her clients overcome abuse and discover joy. She teaches them how to nurture a relationship with God and themselves so that they can live peaceful, playful, purposeful lives. Gina learned how to do this from her own 18-year journey in recovery from childhood sexual abuse, drug addiction, seizures, and a suicide attempt. Her relationship with God is what has brought her through all of her experiences.</p> <h3>How do you recognize and overcome shame?</h3> <p>Anxiety is, in part, a physical manifestation of unresolved emotions and one of those emotions is shame. Most people don't recognize shame unless they truly sit with it. People may harbor negative thoughts about themselves and it takes recognizing those thoughts to change them and overcome them.</p> <h5>Using faith and acceptance from God to overcome shame, trauma, anxiety, and worry</h5> <p>Gina emphasized that if she is a child of God, she can't be this awful person that she thought she was. She learned that her body and mind were responding to sexual and emotional abuse and that she wasn't crazy after realizing she was unconditionally loved. Gina used affirmations of Bible passages to remind herself of what God says about who she is.</p> <ul> <li>Fearfully and wonderfully made.</li> <li>More beautiful than rubies.</li> </ul> <p>These Bible verses are good affirmations for women to use as entrepreneurs. Instead of worrying, and sitting in a place of fear and anxiety, how can we accept God's love to overcome these thoughts. Gina uses visualizatio