A Deep SOUL Dive

~Pastor Deidre Jones, PhD

4/16/20242 min read

The Shame of it all...


Has anyone, for any reason, at any time in your life said to you those words: "SHAME ON YOU"?

If you felt shame and regret when those words were said, then you received the shame - you accepted it and claimed it. You may have even believed it.

That shame slunk into your soul and your other emotions bullied it like a "red-headed step-child." Your joy tried to ignore it; your anger tormented it and your sadness pitied it. The shame therefore, tried to hide in a corner of your life and disappear. But in doing so, that shame fed on the scraps of your life, zapping your heart of useful nutrients and derailed your ability to be your true YOU.

Shame takes up the space where your confidence should live, crowding it out.

  • Shame keeps you from believing God loves you

  • Shame keeps you from fully accepting God's forgiveness

  • Shame causes you to treat yourself shamefully

  • Shame blocks your ability to receive God's blessings

  • Shame keeps you from believing God's promises are for you

  • Shame keeps you from being healed, from prospering and succeeding

  • Shame keeps the enemy active in your life beyond increasing the shame

Shame may start with that "thing" you did "wrong" or that wrong thing that was done to you, and instead of staying at a place of guilt or remorse, it is the shame that turns it inward. Guilt and remorse reject that "thing" or that situation, but shame rejects self as if YOU are that bad thing that causes every bad situation.

And this is why 1) shame is so insidious in every aspect of your life and 2) why shame is so difficult to purge from your soul: your thoughts, will and emotions.

(Overcome "Soul Sucking Shame" in my Total Soul Success Seminar)

1 John 3:2
"Beloved, I wish above all things that you might prosper
and be in health, even as your soul prospers."

Free Your Soul!


It is true that if you free your soul, the rest will follow! That is the promise of 1 John 3:2

You are a Soul CEO when you are fully in control of your own soul!

Live in Freedom!

"O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed;
for I put my trust in thee. "

- Psalm 25:20


When God promises us "prosperity even as our souls prosper" that means He wants us to prosper in EVERY area of our lives! God wants you to have GOOD success in your health; your job; your finances; your well-being and purpose!

When you free your soul from shame it is like "hydroplaning" the crud that cakes up inside your pipes or breaking down plaque build-up in your heart.

A life free of shame is a life that is free to prosper, succeed and MORE!

  • Be FREE to LOVE yourself!

  • Be FREE to enjoy life!

  • Be FREE feel happy!

  • Be FREE to receive God's blessings!

  • Be FREE to be and do exactly who and what God means for you to!

"For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them"
- Isaiah 61:7

Aren't you ready to release the shame and receive DOUBLE for your pain?