In Episode 8 of From Codependence to Christ-Dependence, Dr. Barbara Jean Lowe Sauvé explores the hidden survival strategy of masking—the "safer self" we present when shame tells us we're not safe to be seen. We connect masking to anxiety, anger, and control, expose spiritual bypass as a holy-sounding form of hiding, and return to the core gospel truth: there is no condemnation in Christ.
We unpack hesed (steadfast covenant love), rachamim (womb-compassion mercy), and yada (deep relational knowing), and we look at why many believers still struggle with imposter syndrome—a failure of "object permanence in God." We also discuss how masking can live below words in implicit memory and the nervous system, and how addiction and numbing often emerge when lament is lost.
This episode includes a gentle Jesus encounter to help you loosen the mask and come home to the true self in Christ—unmasked, unashamed, and held.
