When You Shame Yourself for Your Shame

Shame Is My Fault

By Andrea Wilburn

Freedom from shame

Can look like blaming yourself

You are the one who agreed with those who wronged you

You are the one who replays their accusations inside your own heart

You were told you were less than

And you agreed

And you lived it out to prove it true

The more you seek destruction of your destroyers

The more you will become just like them

And you will be the one to fall into your trap

Into the scheme you made to behave like them

You have the power to believe for yourself

You have the power to determine what is true

Your bullies are not your God

You have Divine blessing to recognize your worth

Every day your write yourself a blank check

I have had it so bad I may behave as I wish

So much has been done wrong to me

Whatever wrong I lash out with will never compare

So what if that were true?

What good is it to you?

To bind yourself to your most hurtful moments

And blind yourself to the value others were blind to as well?

You must see that you are independent

Your exist in a far more expansive space than your pain

Love overcomes fear

Truth overcomes perception

And you have far fewer limits than you could ever know

It is no one’s role but your own

To be the person only you can be

Your bullies are not your God

You have Divine blessing to recognize your worth

Worth is not scarce

You don’t have to diminish anyone else

To lift up yourself

Comparison is failure

Your own world is your freedom

You don’t have to live how you have always lived

New is unknown

There is no comfortable

There is no familiar

But that can lead to the best peace you have ever known

Don’t be afraid

And the momentum will build

You will not be afraid and not be afraid

And not be afraid still

You don’t always have to know the solution

But you should realize what is not working

Go within

And you will change the world that is out

You’ve got this!

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This Post is republished on Medium.

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