(Ep. 2) Shame Vs. Identity

What if the problem was never that you're broken — it's that you believed you were?In this episode of Triggered & True, emotional health consultant Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise get to the root beneath the roots: shame, and the difference between what you do and who you are. If you've spent your life trying to "get better," Laura offers a reframe that gives genuine relief — the goal was never to get fixed, because you were never broken to begin with.Working through the story of the Garden of Eden, Laura unpacks where shame really comes from — not the mistake, but the hiding — and the question she finds most powerful in the whole story: "Who told you that you were evil?" She and Brian explore why chasing "good" keeps us trapped on the same seesaw as "bad," how shame gets quietly introduced in childhood "good boy," "bad girl", and the simple truth at the center of it all: what you do matters, but you matter more.In this episode:🔹 Why "getting better" can't be the goal — and how a fix-it mindset quietly feeds shame 🔹 Shame's origin in the Garden of Eden — and why the hiding, not the mistake, did the actual damage 🔹 "Who told you that you were evil?" — the question that reframes how we picture God's response to us 🔹 Shame says what you do is who you are; identity says you are who you are regardless of what you do 🔹 How shame gets taught in childhood — and the countercultural truth that "what you do matters, but you matter more"📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.comhttps://lauraduncan.com