You know the feeling. Something happens - a mistake, a failure, a moment you can't take back. Instead of moving on, you carry it. You rehearse it. You let it settle somewhere deep, and before long it isn't just something you did. It's something you are.

That's the knot.

In Untying Your Knots, Angela Taylor unpacks one of the most misunderstood dynamics in the Christian life: the difference between guilt and shame, and what happens when we confuse them. Guilt, she argues, is not an emotion. It's a verdict. And when that verdict is never truly handed over to God, it festers into shame, which grows into fear, which hardens into control. The result is a woman who is exhausted, bound up, and completely out of control, despite working so hard to hold everything together.

Drawing on Scripture, personal experience, and the kind of raw, honest conversation most people only have after midnight, Angela walks readers through the tangled progression from guilt to shame to fear to control and then beyond it. With warmth, humor, and the authority of a wounded healer who has lived what she's written, she points the way toward surrender, pardon, and a life that is finally, truly free.

Untying Your Knots is for the woman who is tired of performing and ready to be pardoned. It is for anyone who has ever wondered what it would feel like to stop trying to be God in their own life and let the actual God be God.