Sexual Shame
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0800632389 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 159 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Shame may be the reason someone sneaks into the back row and sneaks out to the parking lot with a hope to not be noticed. Within each community and congregation there are members who have been living in deep shame. . When she grew up, he told her, she would be his forever. This book is offered as a resource for congregational discussion and for the personal liberation of those who have experienced shame in their families or in the church. The parents of gay sons feel shame. Jenny coped with it all by imagining herself to be a princess and him the prince. Her stepfather often beat her. Bill wants to be a better father and husband, and he asks for a Christian therapist. And she goes home and struggles with depression and physical pain. She is ashamed that she doesn’t even have any sexual impulses as an adult. My intuition tells me that he can go deeper. &ldqu
"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Great condition. Kimberly A. Rapczak said McClintock on Target with "Sexual Shame". Karen McClintock has written a very timely book which addresses the crisis of shame in our churches. I have served in numerous Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches as a musician, adult educator and now as an ELCA seminarian preparing for ordination, and I know that sexuality is a verboten topic in mainline churches. Though I haven't consciously heard it from the pulpit, I know that the message communicated in church culture is: "Don't do it, and if you are doing it, pretend that you aren't." There are exceptional congregations where sexuality
Tools for healing the trauma of sexual shame. This book will provide pastors and congregational leadership the tools to identify the assumptions, behaviors, and structures that promote, while masking, sexual shame and to begin healing sexual shame both individually and corporately.
. McClintock is a United Methodist pastor current serving as a pastoral counselor at the Samaritan Counseling Center. She is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, specializing in the areas of human sexuality, family systems, and shame