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    52. FORGIVING & FINDING PEACE with ASHLEY C. FORD

    52. FORGIVING & FINDING PEACE with ASHLEY C. FORD

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    52. FORGIVING & FINDING PEACE with ASHLEY C. FORD

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    60 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 14, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    1. How to find a way to live in peace: to actually love complicated parents without compromising our love for ourselves.
    2. How we can’t change our past—and why Ashley says that forgiveness is accepting the fact that the past is never going to be different.
    3. The importance of being able to hold two truths at the same time: that, for some of us, our parents did the best they could—and it wasn’t close to good enough.
    4. Why Ashley says she struggles, even in adulthood, to accept love and care from people who are not obligated to love and care for her.
    5. Why anger often reveals our passion points—and for Ashley, why that leads her to show up for children.
    About Ashley: 
    Ashley C. Ford’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, was published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. Ford is the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.

    Ford has written or guest-edited for ELLE Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Domino, Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications.

    Book: Somebody’s Daughter
    Instagram: @smashfizzle
    Twitter: @iSmashFizzle 
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    Released:
    Dec 14, 2021
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.