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Welcome to season two of the Writing Your Resilience Podcast!  After celebrating season one’s fantastic interviews, I decided to kick things off right by having a fireside-style chat with you about a topic that keeps coming up: Forgiveness. 

Whether we’re on a healing journey or writing the tough stuff, forgiveness can be a complicated thing to grasp and work through. In this episode, I talk about what forgiveness is, what the process looks like, and how it’s related to the writing process. 

As you listen along, consider the following questions: What do you think about the word forgiveness? More importantly, how do you feel about it? What do you want to know about it? And finally, what relationship do you think it has to the writing process?

Episode Resources

Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma by Melanie Brooks

It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing From Narcissistic People by Dr. Ramani Durvasula

Writing to Heal with Laura Davis

Practicing Radical Acceptance with Zebib Abraham

Leaning into the Mystery of Your Stories with Brett Will Taylor

Recovering from Cults and Religious Trauma Through Writing with Tia Levings

To Write a Better Memoir, Learn This F-Word

Episode Highlights

2:00 Why People Hate Forgiveness

7:00 Forgiveness Myths

9:00 Defining Forgiveness

13:00 Forgiveness Prerequisites

22:00 The Process of Forgiving

30:00 Two Powerful Writing Exercises

36:00 Renewing and Releasing Relationships with Yourself and Others

48:00 Empowering Yourself 

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