Trauma, Shame, and Contempt

The Allender Center Podcast by The Allender Center

May 29, 202647:25Religion & Spirituality

What happens when shame takes root in a story? And how does contempt become one of the ways we learn to survive it? Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen explore the complicated relationship between shame and contemp...

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