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Forgive Yourself
by Brenda Reiss
Host Brenda Reiss is a Freedom and Forgiveness coach, and a person just like you that is learning to navigate life and all its challenges. She teaches a forgiveness process like no other. It's a blend of practical and spiritual forgiveness. This process guides you into knowing how unforgiveness can be keeping you stuck in your relationships, both personally and professionally, preventing you from releasing resentment and finding joy. Each week I share practical and some not so practical tips, tools, and advice from myself and other people that are on this journey just like us. This is for you if you are ready to turn your pain into peace. Welcome to the Forgive Yourself podcast.
Episodes
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132: Learning to Forgive When the Apology Never Comes
Sometimes the greatest freedom comes from learning to let go of what we cannot change. In this episode, I welcome TEDx speaker, author, and forgiveness advocate Michael B. Ling for a conversation about healing from childhood trauma, family betrayal, and broken relationships. Michael shares how...
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131: What Happened to You Doesn’t Have to Define You
The ways we learn to survive as children can follow us long after the danger has passed. In this deeply personal conversation, I sit down with Rich Dunning, author of “Silence Was My First Language,” to explore how a childhood shaped by abuse, violence, poverty, homelessness, and addiction...
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130: Who Are You When No One Needs You? The Emotional Side of the Empty Nest
An empty nest can bring more freedom, more time, and a deep sense of pride in the children you’ve raised. It can also bring grief, loneliness, and questions about who you are now. In this episode, I talk about why this transition can feel especially complicated for high-achieving women who have...
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129: Finding Your Way Back to Your Light
Finding your way back to yourself is about slowing down enough to hear what’s already within you, not doing more. In this episode, I sit down with best-selling author and entrepreneur Amber Vilhauer to explore what it means to reconnect with your inner light after years of people-pleasing…
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128: From Self-Punishment to Self-Compassion
Getting sober, changing a behavior, or understanding your patterns doesn’t always mean you’ve healed from what’s underneath them. In this episode, I'm joined by Leif Bjelland, longtime recovery advocate and founder of Heroic Breath, to explore the difference between taking responsibility for your...
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127: How to Forgive the Version of You Who Didn’t Know Better
After heartbreak, it’s easy to look back and wonder: Why didn’t I see it sooner? Why did I stay? How did I let this happen? But taking responsibility for your past doesn’t have to mean carrying shame for it. In this episode, I sit down with somatic coach, educator, and writer Christina Elaine to...
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126: Rebuilding Your Health, Faith, and Life After Trauma
Sometimes the symptoms we’re trying to silence are actually asking us to pay attention. In this episode, Dr. Jen Hewson, doctor of natural medicine, ordained minister, author, and trauma survivor, explores the connection between our physical health, nervous system, emotions, relationships, and...
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125: Trusting Yourself to See Relationships Clearly
Relationships can become much harder to see clearly when our emotions, hopes, fears, and past experiences are involved. Sometimes we recognize the red flags or feel that something isn’t right long before we’re ready to admit it to ourselves. In this episode, I’m joined by relationship coach and…
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124: You Haven't Messed Up Your Life
For years, Paul Drayton believed his struggles with addiction, relationships, and identity were simply who he was. It wasn't until a life-changing ADHD diagnosis at age 50, the end of his marriage, and the work of looking honestly at his past that he began to understand the deeper story behind…
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123: The Spiritual Practice of Forgiveness
Spiritual healing is about coming home to the divine wisdom that's already within you, not becoming someone new. In this heartfelt conversation, I sit down with author, yoga teacher, and inner life coach Regan Caruthers to explore the connection between forgiveness and spiritual devotion, and the...
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122: Acceptance Is Not the First Step
For years, I've heard—and even believed—that acceptance was the answer. But through my own experiences with caregiving, health challenges, and now recovering from hamstring surgery, I've discovered something important: sometimes acceptance feels impossibly far away. In this episode, I'm sharing…
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121: The Freedom to Trust Your Decisions
Making the right decision doesn't always feel peaceful. Sometimes it feels lonely. Sometimes it feels uncomfortable. And sometimes it comes with guilt, grief, or the fear of disappointing the people you love. In this episode, I talk about one of the most important parts of emotional freedom:...
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120: The Freedom to Choose Without Guilt
Why does guilt show up the moment you start honoring yourself? If you've ever set a boundary, said no, chosen rest, or spoken your truth only to immediately wonder if you were being selfish, this episode is for you. In this episode, I explore the difference between healthy guilt, which invites...
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119: The Freedom to Stop Leaving Yourself Behind
Emotional freedom doesn't begin with a dramatic life change—it begins with one honest moment. In this episode, I explore what it really means to stop leaving yourself behind. If you've spent years being the dependable one, keeping the peace, saying yes when you mean no, or putting everyone else's...
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118: Healing the Father Wound - Becoming the Safe Place You Needed
Healing doesn't mean forgetting the past or pretending it didn't hurt. It means no longer allowing what you didn't receive to define who you are. In the final episode of this three-part series on the father wound, forgiveness, and healing, we explore what it truly means to move beyond awareness…
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117: The Father Wound - How It Shapes the Way You Love, Trust, and Choose
The father wound isn’t just about your father. It’s about the beliefs you formed about yourself when you didn’t feel fully seen, safe, protected, chosen, or emotionally met. In this second episode of my When Father’s Day Feels Complicated series, we’re exploring how those beliefs can quietly…
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116: When Father's Day Feels Complicated - Forgiving What You Didn't Receive
Father’s Day can bring up more than celebration. It can stir grief, longing, anger, confusion, gratitude, or the ache of something that was never fully there. In the first episode of this three-part series, I explore the father wound and the impact of growing up with a father who may have been...
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115: The Self-Trust Practice That Changes Every Conversation
Better conversations don’t begin with perfect words—they begin with a more honest relationship with yourself. In this final episode of the self-trust series, I bring everything we've explored together and focus on what self-trust looks like in real life, especially in the conversations…
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114: The 5 Hidden Needs That Shape Your Choices
Why do some decisions feel impossible to make? Why do certain conversations leave you overthinking for days? And why do you keep finding yourself people-pleasing, seeking reassurance, or ignoring what you know is true? Beneath avoidance, over-explaining, and self-doubt, there is often an unmet…
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113: You Don’t Need More Advice. You Need More Self-Trust.
Self-trust is not about having all the answers or never feeling afraid. It’s about learning to stay connected to yourself while taking the next honest step forward. In this first episode of a special three-part series on self-trust, I explore why so many of us keep searching for more advice, more...
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112: Finding Yourself Again After Childhood Trauma
There are some wounds that change the course of a life, and some healing journeys that change it again. In this deeply vulnerable conversation, I sit down with author and memoirist Heather Conn to talk about surviving childhood incest, the long and layered process of healing, and the unexpected...
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111: Trying to Be the Mom You Didn’t Have – The Hidden Pressure No One Talks About
So many women carry a quiet promise inside themselves: ‘I will be different from my mother.’ Maybe you grew up feeling unseen, emotionally alone, criticized, or responsible for everyone else’s feelings. And when you became a mother yourself, you vowed your children would never feel what you felt....
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110: Why Mother Guilt Feels So Heavy – It’s Not Just About Parenting
Mother guilt is something so many women carry, but rarely say out loud. In this episode, I talk about the kind of guilt that shows up in everyday moments. The guilt of not being present enough, patient enough, or doing enough. The guilt that lingers from the past and the pressure we place on...
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109: From “What If” to Self-Compassion After Pregnancy Loss
There are losses we talk about, and then there are the ones we carry quietly. In this episode, I sit down with pregnancy loss coach Shruti Trivedi to talk about a kind of grief that so often goes unspoken. Pregnancy loss is something many experience, but few feel safe enough to fully process.…
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108: Why Receiving Feels So Hard (And How to Begin Allowing It)
Giving comes naturally. Receiving does not. In this episode, I’m diving into why receiving can feel so uncomfortable, especially for high-achieving, high-functioning women who are used to being the ones who give, support, and hold everything together. This isn’t just about brushing off…
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107: When You Lose Yourself Taking Care of Everyone Else
I didn’t lose myself all at once. It happened slowly, quietly, in ways I didn’t recognize until my body started speaking louder than I could ignore. In this episode, I’m sharing something I’m not just teaching, I’m living. We’re talking about what it really looks like to lose yourself while…
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106: What If We Didn’t Walk Away?
When we hear the word dementia, most of us think of loss. Decline. Goodbye. But what if that’s not the full story? In this conversation, I sit down with Marilyn Raichle, who gently challenges everything we think we know about dementia. After being told her whole life to "walk away" when…
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105: Why You Don’t Trust Yourself (And How to Start Again)
So many of us have spent our lives outsourcing our authority, worth, and wisdom to expectations, roles, and other people. In this episode, we explore how to bring it back to yourself. In this conversation, I sit down with the deeply insightful Sheila Delaney to talk about what it really means to...
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104: Self-Forgiveness in a Changing Body
One of the most complicated relationships we have is the relationship with our own body. When chronic illness, pain, injury, or unexpected physical changes show up, many of us quietly begin blaming ourselves or believing our bodies have betrayed us. In this episode, I share how the journey…
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103: Forgiving the Body That Hurts
What if the real healing begins the moment we stop fighting our bodies? In this compassionate conversation, I sit down with Tami Stackelhouse—health coach, founder of the International Fibromyalgia Coaching Institute, and host of the Fibromyalgia Podcast—to talk about self-forgiveness in the face...
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102: Self-Forgiveness When You Feel Behind in Life
“I thought I’d be further along by now.” That’s a sentence I hear all the time, and if I’m honest, it’s one I’ve said to myself, too. In this episode, I’m talking about the quiet ache so many women carry: the feeling of being behind in life. Behind in our careers. Behind in healing. Behind in…
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101: Learning to Love the Woman You've Been Judging
You don’t have to fix yourself first to deserve your own kindness. So many high-achieving women I work with don’t hate themselves…but they don’t really like themselves, either. They tolerate themselves. They manage themselves. They critique themselves. And often, they live in a quiet, ongoing...
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100: You Are Not Broken - A Love Letter to the Woman Who's Been Surviving
When we think about forgiveness, we usually think about other people. But some of the deepest resentment we carry is self-directed, and it often hides as guilt, self-criticism, exhaustion, regret, or a constant feeling that something just isn’t quite right. In this episode, I walk through the 10...
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99: 10 Things We Struggle to Forgive Ourselves For
When we think about forgiveness, we usually think about other people. But some of the deepest resentment we carry is self-directed, and it often hides as guilt, self-criticism, exhaustion, regret, or a constant feeling that something just isn’t quite right. In this episode, I walk through the 10...
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98: Holding Two Truths - Finding Your Center in Uncertain Times
In a world that feels increasingly uncertain, overwhelming, and emotionally charged, how do we stay rooted without bypassing what’s real? In this episode, I explore what it truly means to hold two truths at the same time: acknowledging fear, grief, and instability while also choosing presence,...
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97: When Healing Meets Timing - What Miraval Taught Me About Letting Support In
Sometimes healing doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from allowing ourselves to receive. In this episode, I share my experience at Miraval Resort in Arizona and the unexpected insights that emerged after a season of caregiving, grief, betrayal, and deep self-awareness. Through equine therapy…
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96: The Difference 2 Years Makes
Two years ago, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: moving my husband into memory care. Last year, I shared the raw shock, grief, and guilt of that first year. This episode is about what the second year has taught me. I thought year two would feel easier. More settled. Instead, it...
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95: Why So Many Women Don’t Trust Their Own Gut
What happens when we stop outsourcing our knowledge and begin listening to the wisdom that’s been living inside us all along? Brenda is joined by somatic and expressive arts therapist Cathy Williams to explore what it truly means to come home to your body after trauma, burnout, and...
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94: The Good Girl Syndrome - How People-Pleasing Sneaks Into Adulthood (and How We Break Free)
In this deeply vulnerable episode, Brenda opens up about a powerful and unexpected moment in her caregiving journey with her husband, who lives in memory care due to dementia. What began as shock and heartbreak became a profound awakening, revealing a pattern so many high-achieving, caring women...
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93: What Your Triggers Are Trying to Tell You
Edit B. Kiss, a holistic mentor, success habit coach, and humanitarian award-winning author is joining me to share her story of transformation, which is as grounded as it is spiritual. After 15 years as a petroleum engineer, Edit followed a deep inner calling that led her from spreadsheets to...
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92: The Healing Power of Daily Rituals - A Guide Through Grief
I sat down with author and executive coach Laing Rikkers to explore how quiet rituals, creativity, and the natural world can become anchors during our deepest seasons of loss. When Laing’s younger sister died suddenly just months before the world shut down, she found herself searching for a way...
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91: Breaking Free from Unhealthy Family Dynamics and Finding Peace
Ever wonder how the roles you played growing up impact your life and relationships today? In this episode, I break down the six most common family dynamics and the archetypal roles we fall into. I share how self-awareness is the game changer that lets you set healthy boundaries and choose who you...
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90: When Grief Calls You Home
In this episode, I talk with the luminous Harper A. Bailey, whose debut memoir It Was Her poured straight into my heart. We talk about the dream that sparked her writing, the spiritual co-creation behind her pen name, and the moment she realized her story wasn’t just hers, it was meant to unlock...
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89: Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Support?
If you’re the one who holds it all together—for your family, your friends, your business—but quietly struggles to ask for help yourself, this episode is for you. I know that story well. For years, I prided myself on being the strong one, the fixer, the problem solver. Until my body and spirit...
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88: Clearing the Past to Create Extraordinary Love
I’ve always believed that forgiveness is the bridge between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming, and today’s conversation is proof of that. I’m joined by Riana Malia, a board-certified neurosomatic practitioner and creator of the Clear to Create method, who helps high-achieving women break free...
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87: How Rock Bottom Rebuilt a Marriage
Sometimes, it takes everything falling apart to discover what’s been broken all along. In this episode, I talk with Bryan Power, who went from a “pretty good” marriage to complete collapse before finding the tools that helped him rebuild his relationship stronger than ever. We talk about what...
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86: How High Achieving Women Lose Their Voice
You’re confident, capable, and in control…until it comes to love. At work, you lead with authority. At home, you walk on eggshells. You know how to speak up in the boardroom, but in relationships, your voice gets quieter. In this episode, I’m opening up about how high-achieving women like us lose...
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85: When “Forever” Ends Overnight: Reclaiming Yourself After Unexpected Divorce
What happens when the life you built for decades disappears in a single moment? When you go to bed a wife and wake up a stranger to your own story? In this episode, I sit down with divorce recovery coach Beth Carroll, who knows that pain all too well. After her 25-year marriage ended without...
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84: The Hidden Costs of Hyper-Independence
Today, I’m sharing something deeply personal as well as common, especially for those of us who pride ourselves on being strong, capable, and independent. We’re exploring the hidden cost of hyper independence, that survival strategy that helps us feel safe but often leaves us lonely, exhausted…
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83: Why You Still Feel Empty (Even When Life Looks Full)
"We all have needs, right? They're not selfish. They're not wrong, and they are not a weakness. They're part of being human." This solo episode dives into something that quietly shapes our emotions, choices, and relationships - unmet needs. Many of our adult struggles stem from basic human...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Host Brenda Reiss is a Freedom and Forgiveness coach, and a person just like you that is learning to navigate life and all its challenges. She teaches a forgiveness process like no other. It's a blend of practical and spiritual forgiveness. This process guides you into knowing how unforgiveness can be keeping you stuck in your relationships, both personally and professionally, preventing you from releasing resentment and finding joy. Each week I share practical and some not so practical tips, tools, and advice from myself and other people that are on this journey just like us. This is for you if you are ready to turn your pain into peace. Welcome to the Forgive Yourself podcast.
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