Healing the Root Causes of Shame

June 14, 2025

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I’ve had many people ask me about self-sabotage. This is a topic I know A LOT about. I’ve engaged in SO MUCH self-sabotage in my life and it taught me a lot.

One thing I’ve learned is that everyone engages in self-sabotage. It’s part of life. Some people REALLY judge themselves for it and that becomes yet another layer of self-sabotage. In a sense, it’s like adding insult to injury. Ugh.

Self-sabotage is for the purpose of slowing down our spiritual growth.
It’s very effective.
AND it’s completely reversible as well as stoppable.

In order to eliminate self-sabotage we can focus on Self-Love and release and replace. We release the habits of sabotaging ourselves by focusing on having an effective spiritual practice and employing it each day.

An effective spiritual practice is one that eliminates the root causes of negative and self-destructive behavior.

An effective spiritual practice eliminates the root causes of self-hatred and self-sabotage.

I am grateful that we can make changes that are profoundly healing and nourishing. I am grateful we can change our mind and go the other way.

I used to stay up late watching television and falling asleep in front of the television. That was a form of self-sabotage because then the next day I’d regret it and I’d beat myself up for the choice I’d made the night before.

I didn’t realize I was doing it for the purpose of shaming myself, which kept my vibration low. No wonder I always felt like there was an invisible block to my spiritual awakening!

First step toward healing was to stop beating myself up. Once I stopped that then it was easy to eliminate the staying up late doing something that really didn’t mean anything to me. I worked with Spirit to eliminate the root causes of shame in my consciousness.

I began to feel a true and consistent quickening in my awakening! That’s how I learned that self-sabotage is for the purpose of slowing down our awakening.

What is something that you can see as being in the neighborhood of self-sabotage and what is something you could replace it with that you’d actually enjoy? Release and replace is a great way to train the mind to go the other way!

I’ve been amazed that these patterns that feel so shameful can fall away quickly and easily even after decades of struggling with them.

Are you tired of the shame cycle of self-sabotage? You know the pattern – you feel spiritually connected and high-vibrational, then find yourself reaching for food, scrolling endlessly, or engaging in behaviors that leave you feeling depleted and ashamed.

Here’s what I’ve learned: It’s not about willpower – it’s about healing the emotional wounds that drive us to disconnect from our feelings. Self-sabotage is actually designed to slow down our spiritual growth because part of us feels uncomfortable staying in that high vibration.

But awareness is curative. When you interrupt patterns with Love instead of force, everything changes.

That’s why I’m offering my 6-Week End My Self-Sabotage Challenge with the first week completely FREE. In our sacred circles, we work both sides of the spiritual budget – less energy going into depletion, more flowing toward Love and healing.

What do you have to lose except the patterns that are costing you time, energy, and peace?

[Learn more about the Challenge here]

My June Deep Dive Workshop topic is Eliminating the Blocks to Success.  Spiritual success that is. Have you ever felt like you were being held back?  Like you just couldn’t break free of a stuck place? I felt that way for many years. I didn’t realize I was doing it to myself.  In this workshop I’ll share tips and tools that really work support you in having a breakthrough to spiritual success which leads to success in all areas of our lives. Once we eliminate the blocks to our success then we’re in a whole new experience of this life.  Join me for a powerful Deep Dive Workshop on June 28th. Click now to register

NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Faster Path to Peace. There’s so much assistance for us in the invisible field of Love – more than we can even comprehend, but we do have to be willing. In this week’s episode, I share how we can increase the speed of the healing of our mind, through following the clear instructions in ACIM.  It’s always the perfect time to invite a miracle!


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A Course in Miracles, ACIM, daily prayer, Healing, Inspiration, Jennifer Hadley, Living A Course in Miracles, love, miracles, Peace, prayer, Spirituality


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