Forgiveness

Forgiving the hard thing - it seems impossible.  But there is power in forgiveness - more power than we realize. Let's talk about forgiving the really painful things and letting them go so we can live a healthy and whole life.

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast Working on Amazing.

This is a podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I'm using that word rebuild specifically because we're designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

So if that's you, if you feel like you're having to rebuild your life, at first, I just wanna say, I'm so sorry.

I know how itchy that is.

I know how painful that is.

And I'm sorry you're at the place where it feels like you're just kind of starting over and rebuilding.

But I'm here to tell you, it gets so much better.

There is so much beauty and joy on the other side of this valley.

I promise you, you're not alone.

You're actually, you're in the right place.

So welcome, I'm really, really glad you're here.

So let's get down to today's episode.

Today, we're going to talk about something that falls under our spiritual health category.

If you'll remember in the beginning, I said there were five areas that I focused on when I rebuild my life.

I focused on my spiritual health, my mental health, my physical health, my financial health, and growth and goals.

So today, we're going to talk about spiritual health.

And I'm going to be very upfront with you.

This one's not easy.

I've put this one off for a while.

This one is forgiveness.

And we're going to talk about forgiven, maybe even the big thing, the thing that you are really struggling with letting go.

You don't reach the point where you feel like you're starting over in the middle of your life and not have something, someone to forgive.

Forgiveness is tough.

I was always raised to forgive.

Forgiveness was a piece of my faith, and I knew that.

But when I was faced with something breathtakingly painful, like take your breath away, I didn't know what forgiveness looked like for that, like the reality, like how do I walk out forgiveness?

This hurts so bad.

I know I'm supposed to forgive.

But what does it look like?

What's the reality of this?

Because I'm just reeling from the pain, and I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't feel it, and help me.

So I went on a journey about forgiveness, and I want to talk about some of the lessons I learned today.

And I'm going to try to do it as gently as possible, because I hold a lot of space and respect for the pain that you're going through.

You don't get to where you feel like you're starting over, you're rebuilding without some pain, some significant painful event.

So I hold space and respect for that.

I have great empathy for that.

I've been there.

So with as much gentleness and tenderness as I know how to muster, we're going to tackle the juggernaut that is forgiveness.

Okay?

So we know that we're supposed to forgive.

That's a tenet of the Christian faith.

We know that.

But let's dig a little deeper.

Okay?

So the first scripture that I want to talk about, when it comes to forgiveness, is John chapter 20, verse 23.

And it's Jesus.

These are red letters.

Jesus says, if you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven.

If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.

So this first scripture tells us a major, major thing, major.

We don't talk about forgiveness a ton.

We know we're supposed to do it.

But what I've come to beli