780. Chantal V. Johnson
Otherppl with Brad Listi
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The Coexistence of Estrangement and Forgiveness
i'm just wondering, like, how you feel about the interplite between those two things? Yes. I've tended to think about the ideology of forgiveness when it comes to abuse as really being a strange kind of ideology. But i do what resonates for me is the idea of self forgiveness. Forgiving yourself for failing whatever ideas you had about being a good person. And that makes me feel better on a day-to-day basis. It's not something that iam prescribing as a goal for any one else who estranges their family or has been abused in some way by someone they are close to and have lost contact with. That would be too harsh. You can
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