Yo, today's QOD is your breakthrough is waiting for you to let it go.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your hope shine, Crocs and a

shine Crocs and calm. We got at least sudden Nichols back on the show and I

mean I've been sitting on this episode or this clip for about three years or so.

And it is one powerful clip, but I've been sitting on it because in part because it

may be a domestic violence trigger for some people. So I just want to put that out

there before you listen to it. Like if you got some domestic violence trauma, you may

want to skip this one or let somebody else listen to it first just to kind of figure

if it's appropriate for you, I think that would be a really good idea.

And I get questions about this particular topic for my students every once in a

while because they want to write books or they want to be motivational speakers and

they're not clear on how to tell their stories which involve other characters while

keeping the dignity of the other characters in tact. And Lisa's going to provide some

really, really incredible advice around that. Here's Lisa.

Who okay talk to talk to talk to talk to me you're going to say something.

So you spoke about your abusive relationship with your ex fiance.

You just go right there to the stuff.

So I think it's important to talk about the abuse because I believe when we don't,

the abuser wins. And I listened to it once because it was amazing.

And then I listened to it again to hear how you told it.

And then in my manuscript or time halfway through, I wrote about my past abusive marriage.

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