Ep. (55) The Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Root of All Pain

What if the exhausting question running under everything — Am I good enough? — is the very thing keeping you from freedom?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise return to an idea they first explored back in Episode 9, prompted by a listener question: the knowledge of good and evil as the ultimate root of all pain, anxiety, and depression. It's a conversation that weaves Laura's Christian faith through the Compassion Method — and, as always, one that offers just as much to listeners of any faith or none, because the pattern it describes is simply human.Laura shares how her faith shaped the method — including the loneliness she carried even with a strong relationship with God, a happy marriage, and four kids, and how she discovered she was missing the tangible human love the Compassion Method helped her finally receive. From there she and Brian unpack the "two trees": why you can't eat from both, how living from the knowledge of good and evil traps you in a frantic, energy-draining loop of "am I good enough?" (Brian likens it to malware quietly running in the background), and how the tree of life — living from fullness, from the fruit of the Spirit — produces a genuinely good life as a byproduct rather than a performance. The freeing turn: when you're no longer led by good-and-evil, you're not living good to earn love or living in fear of being bad — you're simply free.In this episode: 🔹 Why "am I good enough?" is a frantic loop that drains you — like malware running in the background 🔹 The knowledge of good and evil as the root of anxiety and depression (building on Episode 9) 🔹 Laura's faith journey — and the loneliness that persisted even when everything looked right 🔹 The "two trees": why you can't eat from both, and what it means to live from the tree of life 🔹 Why a good life flows as a byproduct of fullness — not as a performance to earn love📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.com https://lauraduncan.com