thinking to become clouded by thoughts that fit into many or all of the categories listed above. Thoughts filled with shame, doubt, fear, anger, and sadness may linger just beneath our conscious awareness. It takes careful examination to realize they are coloring our overall mindset far more than we realize. I am dirty. God doesn’t love me. I’m going crazy. I never feel safe. Will the pain ever stop? Sometimes our most distressing thoughts happen when we
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