328: Fresh Starts and Forgiveness: How Bitterness is Holding You Back
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Corrine and Neil talk about what it takes to both offer and experience a fresh start. They share personal stories about letting go of bitterness, learning to forgive, and finding peace through the atonement of Jesus Christ. But they also talk about the other side of the equation: how real change happens when someone chooses to do the work, how repentance leads to transformation, and why boundaries and discernment are essential along the way.
You’ll hear why C.S. Lewis’s reminder that “to be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable” resonates so deeply, and how Corrine’s own recovery journey taught her the freedom that comes not just from forgiving, but from truly changing. Together, they explore why forgiveness doesn’t mean going back to toxic situations—but it does mean creating space for God’s grace, healing, and the possibility of lasting transformation.
Whether you’ve been hurt, are working through regrets of your own, or just want to understand how change really happens, this conversation will give you hope, clarity, and encouragement to embrace the miracle of fresh starts.
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| 0:00.0 | it is the beginning of a new school year here for us and I think for a lot of people I guess some people |
| 0:11.1 | go back to school after Labor Day but it's been exciting it's been exciting to have a quiet house again |
| 0:16.9 | right I actually do really like it yes it's a little weird little weird, but I love it. Oh, the kids were so |
| 0:22.5 | excited to go back to school. And I had a really interesting experience with my oldest daughter |
| 0:27.6 | coming home. And, you know, she had her first year of middle school last year. And so I asked her |
| 0:33.4 | after her first week of her second year of middle school. |
| 0:38.1 | So middle school here starts in sixth grade, which I think is really early. |
| 0:42.2 | Like if I had my way, I'd have them go seventh through ninth like we did. |
| 0:46.1 | But here it's six through eighth, whatever. |
| 0:48.9 | So she did her first year, which I think everyone's first year of middle school is so rough. It was for me. It was for you. So that, for me, was seventh grade. But this year is her second year. So even though it's seventh grade, it's her second year in middle school. And I was asking her the other day. So how is that? How is middle school going now that, you know, you've had a year under your belt and this is your second year. And she was like, |
| 1:11.4 | oh, it's going great. It's awesome. So we were talking about friends. We were talking about boys, |
| 1:18.0 | you know, the girlfriends, like the group of friends that she's with, like who's sitting at |
| 1:22.6 | what lunch table and whatever. We were talking through all of it. And she brought up one person and she was like, |
| 1:28.5 | yeah, they were really nice to me. And then she brought up another person like, yeah, this person was |
| 1:34.5 | really nice to me too. These are people who either she has felt kind of bullied by in the past or, |
| 1:40.0 | you know, and there have been like legitimate things where I'm like whoa that's wrong and you know and |
| 1:46.4 | and things with boys things with girls certainly things with girls in general just tends to be |
| 1:52.1 | even more exacerbated because girls can just be brutally mean to each other but in both of these |
| 1:57.3 | circumstances um she was just like yeah, like they were actually really nice. |
| 2:04.3 | And so we had this whole conversation, a great conversation about fresh starts. And I just looked |
| 2:10.8 | at her and I said, Annie, this is a core element of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, is allowing others to |
| 2:16.0 | change. You know, and it's, we talk a lot about this in our home and in our own personal journeys |
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