Unlocking the Power of Forgiveness: A Journey to Growth and Empowerment | Part One

Beyond Your Default

Over the past few episode's we've covered a number of fascinating and thought-provoking topics meant to propel us to living a life beyond our default:

• Maintaining a healthy relationship with our own ego, good ego vs. bad ego, and what to do if we let our ego get the best of us.
• How important it is to be mindful of the language we use to talk to ourselves about ourselves, and how this can directly impact how we move through the world.
• Reshaping the role fear plays in our lives based on our unique experiences, so it doesn't become a destructive force.
• The importance of the relationship we cultivate with ourselves, as well as the relationships we cultivate with others.

What's interesting about these topics is that, although they are distinct topics – each very much deserving of their own dedicated and focused conversation – George and I noticed a pattern emerging as we talked through them.

⚡ Go Deeper: What does it mean to live Beyond Your Default?

At some point, your personal journey tackling each of these opportunities and challenges will involve some element of forgiveness — whether that means we need to forgive someone else or, most of all, we need to forgive ourselves.

For instance, the language we use to talk about ourselves to ourselves can skew in a deeply negative way if we don't view ourselves worthy of self-compassion or forgiveness. On the other hand, the quality of relationships with cultivate, nurture, and maintain with others will almost always inevitably require us to forgive others.

Because of the complexities of the topic of forgiveness, it's impossible for us to cover it in a single episode. So, over the course of the next two episodes, we will be exploring both sides of forgiveness coin in depth.

We begin our adventure into the land of forgiveness a conversation of what it means to truly forgive others, why the forgiveness of others matters, and what it looks like in practice.

Questions We Explore

• Why is our ability to forgive others tied so deeply to our ability to live a life that extends us beyond our default?
• How has George's relationship with forgiving others changed over the years?
• What are the benefits each of us have realized in our lives as we've integrated a more forgiveness-forward mindset?
• What disparities do we see between what the true definition of forgiving others and how most folks tend to define it?
• What makes it's so hard for some of us to truly forgive others?
• How do we approach sensitive situations (trauma, abuse, etc.) where victims can embrace a forgiveness mindset without needing to absolve or engage with bad actors in their lives?
• What are the most important questions someone should ask themselves if forgiving others is an area of their lives in which they struggle?