52. FORGIVING & FINDING PEACE with ASHLEY C. FORD

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I walk through a fire, I came out the other side.
0:12.8	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:14.8	We are delighted and so excited that you keep coming back.
0:19.7	We always talk about how we want the show to really be about service, okay?
0:24.5	So every show we are thinking about what you all need and want and what conversations
0:30.5	you're asking for that might just make life a little bit easier.
0:34.4	I'm not fixing anything here.
0:36.6	We're just trying to make things just to smidge easier.
0:40.4	And one of the things we've noticed is that people are always asking about family of
0:44.3	origin stuff.
0:46.8	Just please talk about the folks we come from who, for better or worse, make us who we
0:53.9	are.
0:56.4	Questions like what do we take from them and leave with them?
0:59.8	How do we forgive?
1:00.8	What does forgiveness even mean?
1:04.1	What about when they did the best they could and it was not even close to good enough?
1:09.8	What does it look like to love your family, but also break free and live your own wild
1:14.3	and precious life?
1:16.9	What the hell are healthy boundaries?
1:19.8	What do we owe our families and what do they owe to us?
1:23.1	And what does it look like to be held and free?
1:27.0	So to help us explore these easy, peasy questions, I, which for sure we're going to nail by the
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