How Do You Forgive The Unforgiveable?

What happens when the person you trusted most becomes the source of your deepest wounds?

In this unforgettable and profoundly personal episode of Friday Feelings, Jenelle sits down with her mother for a raw conversation about what it means to forgive the unforgivable. With courage, clarity, and compassion, they unravel a story marked by betrayal, generational trauma, and the long road to emotional liberation.

This is more than a story of survival, it’s a blueprint for healing.

Together, they talk through what Emotional Intelligence really looks like when the stakes are soul-deep: not the polished kind you read in a leadership book, but the kind forged in the fires of heartbreak, injustice, and loss. And yet, what emerges is not bitterness, but beauty.

💔 From infidelity and financial deception to devastating truths that emerged years later, Jenelle’s mother shares how she walked through a season of unimaginable pain…and made a decision not to let that pain define her future.

This episode is a masterclass in emotional courage, self-awareness, and the true meaning of self-management when triggered. It invites you into the hard truth: forgiveness is not weakness, it’s emotional mastery.

💡 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• Why forgiveness is not the same as forgetting, condoning, or reconciling
• How rage and heartbreak physically manifest in the body and how to listen to those signals
• The difference between numbing emotions and navigating them with EQ
• What it means to actively forgive someone who continues to cause harm
• How to know if you’re still holding on to pain by asking: “Do I still need or  something from this person?”
• The power of choosing peace over retribution, because forgiveness isn’t for them, it’s for you
• Practical steps to begin your own forgiveness process no matter how fresh or how old the wound

“Forgiveness doesn’t change the past. But it frees your future.”

Whether you’re spiritual, religious, or not at all, this episode speaks to the universal human experience of being hurt… and the extraordinary resilience it takes to let go.

If you’ve ever whispered to yourself, I don’t know if I can move on from this - this episode is your invitation to believe that you can.

🎧 Tune in now, and take the first step toward forgiving, and purposely living in peace and redemption.

🔗 Linked Resources from This Episode

Forgiveness isn’t forgetting. It’s choosing to stop carrying what was never yours to hold. These tools, books, and resources support the journey of processing pain, reclaiming your peace, and healing from the inside out.

📖 Books & Foundational Teachings

• The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu: https://amzn.to/4cCPhoZ
• Forgiving What You Can’t Forget by Lysa TerKeurst: https://amzn.to/42ChW9h
• Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping: https://amzn.to/42GbIFz

🧠 EQ + Healing Tools

• I AM Statements for Healing
  Create personal, powerful truths to combat shame, rewrite self-worth, and take back your identity.
  ➤ Try: I am healing. I am worthy of peace. I am no longer a prisoner of what hurt me.
  ➤ Need help writing your own? Download a free I AM Starter Pack (coming soon—want me to build this for you?)
• Journaling Prompt (from the episode)
  ➤ What does forgiveness look like to me—not for them, but for me?
  ➤ What burden am I still carrying, and what would it feel like to set it down—even if they never say sorry?

🔊 Faith & Emotional Healing

• Scriptures for Emotional Release & Forgiveness
  ➤ Ephesians 4:31-32