Goop: On Divorce and Self-Forgiveness (Elena Brower)

This podcast uses divorce as the starting point to dig into a treasure trove about how we approach all of the relationships in our lives - loved ones, family, colleagues, friends, and ourself. I find it transformative in how it has helped shift my own mindset as well as the people I’ve already shared this with. With self-forgiveness as the core they cover many concepts in the discussion that explore how each of us can continue to engage in the foundational tenants of patience, clarity, respect, peace and forgiveness as we move through our daily adventures.

Gwyneth has a great quote I love: ‘intimate relationships are a meditation on everything that’s wrong with us.’ They give pointers on repairing shame and why it’s never too late, the importance of meditation and how it influences how we are able to make choices on our actions in the MOMENT. WHAAAA?!?!? Another part I love learning to ask how we are going to relate to something before we act, instead of allowing our chemistry take over in those special moments when our body chemistry is on fire and in high reactive

My own divorce has been an adventure into myself, my relationships, and my life that I have navigated with continuing levels of failure and success as I keep discovering new ways, intents, and goals to lift myself up and move forward. There is something in this podcast that opens the possibility of how I can explore this further with a brighter light at the end of the tunnel. Hope you find your own golden nuggets in here for you, the one that keeps sticking is the the question they pose that can be applied to any situation: “What would it mean if you were to take responsibility for everything that has happened.” Might want to sit down for that part ;)