"My Secret Shame" sounds like a tawdry romance novel, doesn’t it? Yet, it was how I felt during my past history of overeating. I’ve been taking another look at that habit through a book by neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf called "Who Switched Off My Brain?"

If you are dealing with this habit, then this new perspective can help set you free! The root word of shame means "to cover." Do you really want to spend the rest of your life hiding or covering up?

​In the book, Dr. Leaf says that emotions fall into 2 categories: fear-based emotions or faith-based emotions. Toxic thoughts (those that oppose God’s word) yield fear-based emotions. Some examples of fear-based emotions are shame, self-hatred, bitterness, and self-pity.

Healthy thoughts (those in line with God’s word) yield faith-based emotions. Most of us want to live in these emotions daily, such as love, joy, and peace.

Shame can occur when you see your behavior falling short of your standards. My standard was that I only wanted to eat when my body was hungry and stop eating when my body was satisfied. But I found myself failing to meet my standard repeatedly. I ate out of emotion, not hunger. Plus, I often ate until the point of physical discomfort (stuffed).

In Romans 7:24-25, the apostle Paul gives the solution: "…Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin."

You can change negative behaviors through operating with the mind of Christ. Dr. Leaf says that you can trace every toxic behavior (such as overeating or other addictions) all the way back to a toxic thought.

In the following article, I write about how you can identify your toxic thoughts and what you can do to get rid of them. Scroll down the article to get the process:

http://takebackyourtemple.com/secret-shame-overeating/

God does not want us to live in shame and condemnation. Galatians 5:1 encourages us: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage."

This article will give you valuable tools to get free from toxic thinking:

http://takebackyourtemple.com/secret-shame-overeating/

Be blessed in health, healing and wholeness,

Kimberly Taylor

Take Back Your Temple
www.takebackyourtemple.com