No More Shame

In this episode we uncover how to break free from shame’s grip by facing it with truth instead of avoidance. You’ll learn practical steps to pause, name the lie, and replace it with God’s promises—so you can live from a secure identity in Christ and walk in true freedom. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Ever find yourself beating yourself up, unable to receive a compliment, or stuck replaying past mistakes? In this episode we name the voice of self-attack, trace where those thoughts come from, and share practical psychology + Gospel-centered steps (questioning lies, building self-compassion, and inviting Jesus in) to loosen shame’s grip and live freer. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Rya...

This week, Dr. Megan introduces the “Compass of Shame,” a concept developed by Donald Nathanson in 1992 to explain the four common ways people respond to shame: withdrawal, attacking the self, avoidance, and attacking others. This episode focuses on withdrawal—pulling back, shutting down, or isolating when shame feels overwhelming and true. Through real-life examples, we look at how withdrawal cre...

Self-care isn’t selfish—it’s essential. Shame often convinces us that tending to our needs either means we don’t matter or that we’re being self-centered, but neither is true. Jesus Himself modeled boundaries, rest, prayer, and solitude as a way of stewarding His life and ministry, showing us that caring for ourselves enables us to love and serve others more fully. Choosing self-care is choosing s...

Pain, in all its forms, can shape how live - sometimes in ways we don't even realize. It's deeply human to hurt, to have pain, to face suffering. But "getting past it" isn't even possible. Join this week as we look at what working around your pain can begin to look like. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Welcome to season three! Too often we do not own who we are. We allow others, external circumstances, or our past to own who we are, but we were made for more! "I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am” (Philippians 4:13) Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Shame says you must earn your dignity by chasing the next, or, don't move because you better not do something that will lose your dignity, value, or worth. But, here's the thing, you can't earn it and can't lose it because it's already yours! Jesus has already declared all of that over you. Shame doesn't have to drive you, you're free from listening to it. So, wh...

Living free of shame can start in childhood. Parents, you and I have a great ability and responsibility when it comes to parenting our children into this freedom. Join today's podcast to learn how we can do this with our kids. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Last podcast we talked about how shame looks in marriage and how it’s cultivated. Now, we need to talk about how to deal with it. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

This episode kicks off the discussion of the impact of shame on the family. How it looks, how it’s cultivated and how we can get rid of it. Join today to learn how shame too often impacts the most foundational level of the family, marriage. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Forgiveness isn’t erasing what someone did, forgetting, or reconciliation, but an act of faith that requires you to live from your true identity. A decisive act that requires great strength, but one that creates greater freedom!  Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Shame wants to undermine your freedom, peace, joy, and hope for the future. A way it does this is through trying to convince you forgiveness isn’t for you. It lies. Forgiveness is for you! Join this week and hear how now is the time to forgive yourself!  Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

We start off Season 2 with how to manage our day-in and day-out shame, shame that we may or may not be able to trace back to something specific. The fight to silence shame’s narratives very much begins with the necessity of seeing an accurate image of ourselves. So, join this week as we discuss how to overcome shame through the development of the most accurate view of the self: an imago Dei framew...

Repentance is the ultimate path of empathy. It’s where Jesus comes and looks you in the eyes and says, “I know and I love you.” “I know and I have come for you.” “I know and I’m not put off by whatever you think you’re hiding.” Let’s live in repentance, not regret.  Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Truth creates a weight, a value, to what we do and who we are. "Fake it til we make it" removes that weight. Don't let shame tell you that you must remove authenticity and honesty to be strong. It's in our authenticity and honesty, and yes, in our weaknesses, where we experience the power of God. How great it is to live a life where the power of God literally flows through us,...

Living a settled-for-less life sometimes looks like simply giving up. But what if a life lived trying to “keep up” is also a settled for less than what you were made for kind of life? Shame wants to keep us settled one way or another, but it doesn’t have to win. Listen this week as the topic of shame and settling are explored.  Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Join Dr. Megan Clunan this week as she discusses the second of a three part series on the relationships of shame. This week the relationship between shame and fear is addressed. Fear is a natural God-given human reaction. If God made us with the ability to fear, He didn’t give it to us to hurt or hinder us, yet too many of us find we are trapped by fear. We aren’t meant to live trapped lives. List...

Ever feel a bit cynical about your life, our world, or the future? If you do, I want you to be aware that cynicism is one of shame's best friends. They often come into our lives hand in hand. They may be friends, but you don't have to be their friends, you can break free from that relationship! Join me this week as we start a three part series on shame's best friends. Instagram: @no...

When shame starts for us in childhood, it dies hard for us in adulthood. It’s so hard to kill when it gets a foothold in our lives as children because childhood is where we learn who we are and how to think about ourselves, our lives, and our future. But our beginning doesn’t have to be our end. Jesus has proclaimed a future over us more powerful than our past. It is for freedom that Jesus came to...

Another of shame’s one-liners is, “You’re all alone." When we believe we are all alone we'll begin to live like it. If we live like we are all alone, we will create the very life, the very future that one-liner is proclaiming over us -- after all perception drives reality. Let's rewrite the one-liner to aline with the truth: "You're NOT all alone." As a child of God y...

When shame comes calling with the one-liner – "you’re never going to change" – remember its a lie. Replace it with the truth. Change will take time, but you have a savior that won’t leave you. And, although your feelings are important, they are not of utmost importance, rather it’s choosing to trust the one that made you. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

"We are only as sick as the secrets we keep and shame is committed to keeping us sick" (AA). It's time to step out of the secrecy of our struggles and into the truth of what we are actually facing. In doing so we'll find greater health and freedom for our mind, body, and soul. After all, the world doesn't need perfect people it just needs people that understand they need e...

Shame has one liners it likes to tell us over and over again. The problem is that those one liners are lies. This week we'll explore the one liner of "be sure you don't waste your life" and three key things you to be done to combat this one liner today.  Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

We do not just surrender our heart, mind, and soul to Jesus, but our physical bodies as well. Understanding they too are to come into submission to the life Jesus means they too are to find redemption and restoration, as Jesus makes all things new. Show Music Ryan Kastel Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel

Shame is a body-based emotion, which means we hold it in our physical bodies. In this episode we will be talking about how our body holds shame AND how we can release it. This is a two-part podcast, so join today to begin the conversation of what finding freedom from shame means for our physical selves. Instagram: @nomoreshame_podcast Music by Ryan Kastel