055: When Shame Grips Your Heart and Mind with Adam Reid

Today’s guest is Adam Reid who is currently Amazon’s #1 best selling author for new releases in adult Christian ministry with his book called LOVE IS REAL Let me read a few excerpts from the press release:

“Love is Real” peels back the mask that allows depression and anxiety to silently grow beneath.

Adam Reid has deep roots across Kentucky from his hometown, Clay County, to where he now lives in Midway. He has spent the last seventeen years studying biology while getting his Masters from the University of Kentucky and teaching at Madison Central High School for a decade. Adam battled mental health issues in silence for thirteen years. In Love is Real, he shares the scientifically supported methods to fight the real enemy: shame.

You don’t willpower your way through cancer. Your work ethic doesn’t allow you to overcome a heart attack. You don’t refuse to take your diabetic insulin because your faith is enough for you to be healed. Similarly, your willpower and grit won’t overcome mental health struggles. Your mental health is not a sign of personal failure or a mark against your belief in God’s influence over your life. Just because you cannot see anxiety or depression doesn’t make their biological causes any less real.

A few key words and phrases to give you a taste of what we discuss include the following:

• wearing a "mask"
• earning salvation
• obsessed with productivity
• finding love
• self-punishment
• over achievement
• good deeds
• workaholism
• alcoholism
• depression
• anxiety
• shame
• worthiness
• avoidance
• negative thinking
• vulnerability

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