Overcomer

Shame seems to be running rapid in our society, especially among women. Especially when it comes to sexual abuse, harassment, or even comparing ourselves with each other or the media.

I deal with shame. I deal with it with my illness that leaves me feeling inadequate and disgraceful every time I go to the store, or any public place. I’m different, I have to use a wheelchair and I sound different when I breathe than anyone else I know. Accepting that this is now my new normal has been a hard journal. Thinking of myself as beautiful, wonderfully made, worthy of love has been a huge struggle for me. I know God tells me these exact things, but it is hard to trust that this is true when I am struggling so much just to live, just to breathe through small moments in my life.

This book, Overcomer by Aubrey Gayel Sampson brought many things to light for me. That I am not the only women, person who struggles with shame, with defeat, with feeling weak in their own life. It’s a human struggle.

I have many women in my life I would like to read this book. I hope that they will. And explore their struggle with shame and guilty…