A thoughtful and insightful book on shame and its effects on people, specifically women, in this book. The author uses her theological understandings and her personal experiences to present an explanation of shame, where it may come from, how different people handle it and some of its affects on people. I appreciated hearing her personal experience with shame in her life and how she no longer feels burdened by it.

In this book, Holmes delves into shame and how often we as Christians experience feelings of shame that are often not warranted or are put on us by the world or other people. She does a good job distinguishing between shame and guilt and worldly guilt and godly guilt which is illuminating.

"But other times, we feel shame when no sin is present. This is because we think we've transgressed some 'biblical' boundary, but the truth is that the boundary isn't even real in God's word. It's either culturally contrived or simply imaginary. Yet we still feel the emotional aftermath of transgression said boundary because we genuinely thought it was real."

Holmes beautifully articulates the gospel truths that help banish shame from our lives and truly believe that God will never cast us out. "Our feelings do not determine the truth of our status with God, Christ's death and resurrection does."

I already have this book pre-ordered but when there was an opportunity to read it early through Netgalley I jumped at the chance! Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC.