Spun Out on Shame? Reclaim Your Sanity

By Tamara J. Buchan and Lindsey D. Osborne

A strong handshake, a tender hug, a long embrace...being held feels good. As human beings built for connection, embraces carry power when they come from someone who knows us fully and loves us anyways. The embrace of God’s powerfully loving arms began in a green garden long ago. The original design was a clean, lively, and green creation to host and hold people as they were meant to be. To lived loved was the original design. We’ve wandered and gotten lost, lived for less, and walked a winding road. However, the fresh, pure, living embrace of God who knows us as Beloved Child, is available to each of us, right now. It’s up to us to reclaim what was ours all along.

A multi-media book focused on reclaiming the true identity our Creator gave to each one of his beloved children! In John 8:36, Jesus says, “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” We all long for freedom and yet so often the pain and guilt and shame of our past imprisons us and gets in the way of truly experiencing the kind of freedom and the kind of abundant, joyful life that Jesus offers to each one of us. I have worked with teenagers through the ministry of Young Life for the past thirty-five years. I can honestly say that the number one issue facing young people is this lack of identity, a lack of knowing who they truly are as individuals created in the image of God with the capacity to know Him personally.

To watch young people discover the truth of their identity, is to see them set free and to see them discover, for the first time, their God-given purpose and destiny. And it isn’t just young people. People of all ages in our world today are struggling to find peace and so often the root issue is simply this - not knowing who they truly are and whose they are. In this e-book, Green Embraces: Identity Reclaimed, Tamara J. Buchan and Lindsey D. Osborne have offered a concise, succinct, powerful window into what it means for us to deny the lies of our past and to embrace the truth of who we really are in Christ. The words presented here, help us to discover that we are truly loved, that our story is part of a greater divine story, that we are forgiven and truly accepted and that we have a true place of belonging. If embraced, these words have the power to bring true freedom, the kind of freedom that can only come when we see ourselves the way that God sees us, a beloved child of the King!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tamara J. Buchan
• Release date: Jan 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310294112

Tamara J. Buchan

Tamara J Buchan, founder of Reclaim Ministries, ordained Evangelical Covenant pastor, author and speaker, holds a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary. However, these worldly credentials do not fulfill or thrill her nearly as much as her identity as a beloved child and royal heir to her Heavenly Father. Tamara is passionate about her husband and family, as well as her two puppies! Tamara and Bill reside in Sonoma County, California. To find out more about how you can invest in your identity and future, check out Tamara on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TamaraJBuchan. To register for the life changing "Come Away Reclaim the True You Identity" Retreats in Sonoma County, visit http://www.ReclaimIdentity.org.

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Spun Out on Shame?

Reclaim Your Sanity

You were Meant for More Series

Tamara J. Buchan

Lindsey D. Osborne

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I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me.

He freed me from all my fears.

Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy;

No shadow of SHAME will darken their faces.

In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened;

He saved me from all my troubles.

Psalm 34:4-6

Dedication

This book is dedicated to everyone

who has ever experienced the great theft of shame.

Our dream is for the world to be a shame-free zone!

It starts with each one of us reclaiming our true identity:

as a beloved child who belongs in God’s great big family,

rather than as a captive,

isolated within the prison of shame.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1

The Life We Were Meant to Live

Chapter 2

Our True Father

Chapter 3

The Naked Truth

Chapter 4

The Ultimate Seduction

Chapter 5

Seduction’s Outcome: Shame

Chapter 6

Shame’s Downward Spiral

Chapter 7

Eviction from the Garden: Judgment or Mercy?

Chapter 8

Heaven’s Answer to Shame

Chapter 9

Appendix

Appendix Video Scripts

Appendix Videos

About the Authors

Other Books

Resources

Foreword

As beautiful as this world is, as often as life brings us beauty, love and joy, most of us are all-too familiar with fear, loss and shame. And while fear can affect our outlook and loss can upset our stability, shame infects our identity.

Authors Tamara Buchan and Lindsey Osborne have written a book together that offers keen analysis and personal insights into the lies and thievery of shame. Spun out on Shame? Reclaim Your Sanity helps us think about our own struggles with shame and identity and offers practical steps we can take to find our true identity.

Guilt and shame are issues we all deal with, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Guilt usually requires some sort of amend, but if we’re willing to pursue it, resolution can happen. Shame, on the other hand, leaves a stain.