Everybody tells you to forgive, but almost nobody tells you how. This episode is for anyone stuck holding onto anger, resentment, or a grudge they can't seem to put down, even when they know it's not helping them.
Forgiveness educator Katharine Giovanni joins Ria to break down her step-by-step approach to building a healing mindset, starting with the easiest people to forgive and working up from there. She explains why forgiveness has nothing to do with excusing what happened, why survival mode can start to feel like an identity, and why you're allowed to feel your negative emotions before you let them go.
About the Guest:
Katharine Giovanni is a forgiveness educator, intuitive, and serial entrepreneur, and the author of 16 books. She has developed a step-by-step forgiveness system that starts with easier relationships and builds toward the hardest ones, and she shares this work through her books and website.
Key Takeaways:
- Forgiveness means getting someone out of your head, not excusing what they did or agreeing they were right.
- Start your forgiveness practice with the easiest person to forgive, then work your way up to harder ones.
- Survival mode can quietly become an identity, which is part of why moving into true healing feels so scary.
- Give yourself permission to feel a negative emotion fully for a set time before choosing to release it.
- A healing mindset isn't about being positive all the time. It's about not carrying resentment rent-free in your head.
Connect With Katharine Giovanni:
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Everyone Says Forgive, No One Says How: the missing piece in most healing advice
[05:00] (approx.) Getting Them Out of Your Head: what forgiveness actually means
[11:30] (approx.) The Badge of Survival: why staying stuck can start to feel like your identity
[18:00] (approx.) The Fear of the Unknown: crossing the bridge from surviving to healing
[24:15] (approx.) You're Allowed to Feel Bad: giving yourself permission before you let go
[30:00] (approx.) Start With the Easy Ones: a practical first step into the forgiveness system
[35:30] (approx.) Staying Steady Through Setbacks: what happens when old triggers resurface
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