
S1E14 Encounter the Joyful Unknown with Monica Herber
In today’s episode, I welcome my first Guest, Monica Herber. We talk about Monica and her husband’s adoption of a child with profound disabilities and their journey through forgiveness to joyful livin...
5 Mars 202425min

S1E13 Pockets of Joy in the Midst of Suffering
In this episode, I discuss how we can make ourselves receptive to joy amid our suffering and how we can use our suffering for the good of others. I discuss the four levels of Happiness in Fr. Robert S...
27 Feb 202410min

S1E12 Overcoming Shame in the Forgiveness Process
In this episode, I discuss the emotion of shame, the third core emotion we might experience in the forgiveness process. In recent history, shame researcher Brene Brown has made headlines around the wo...
20 Feb 202413min

Eww that's disgusting! 5 Ways to Approach Disgust in the Forgiveness Process
Disgust is an oft-overlooked emotion in the healing of trauma and deciding to forgive. Moral disgust is the reaction to a physical reaction towards a person who violated the moral code, such as sexual...
13 Feb 202412min

S1E10 Emotions in Forgiveness: Anger
It’s important to understand how our emotions can help us heal or keep us stuck in unforgiveness. In this episode, I talk about the role of anger in the forgiveness process. I make the distinction bet...
6 Feb 202417min

S1E9 Is Retelling My Trauma Story Helpful or Harmful?
In this episode, I examine how our thoughts, words, and actions in unforgiveness can result in sin that we may not even be aware of committing. I also caution against advice I was given in the early s...
30 Jan 202414min

S1E8 Is Loving Our Enemies Forgiveness?
In this episode, I am tackling the belief that “good” Christians have to forgive because God tells us to love our enemies. But is loving the same as forgiving? So many Christians who are still in the...
23 Jan 202414min

S1E7 How to Say, "I'm Sorry" and Mean It
Today’s episode is about how we learn to forgive, what we can do to unlearn some bad forgiveness habits, and how to make a sincere apology. We are social beings and human brains develop in community. ...
16 Jan 202413min



















