Accountability. Forgiveness. #583

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Cathy and Todd discuss how accountability leads to unity, and how impunity or justifying something deeply harmful leads to more divisiveness, not healing. They discuss how this is true with our government and the insurrection, and also when we have challenges in our partnerships, parenting, and friendships. Forgiveness is what we do for ourselves, not others, and comes after a process and practice of realizing that we can’t change what happened (it often takes a great deal of time). Forgiveness does not mean reconciliation, condoning a person’s behavior, justifying the offense, or denying or forgetting the impact on our lives. It means cutting the cord and taking back the energy that is rightfully ours while never forgetting the wisdom we gained.

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0:00.0	Do do do do do do do
0:05.0	Here we go.
0:06.0	My name's Todd.
0:07.0	This is Gabi.
0:08.0	I'll go back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio.
0:10.0	This is podcast number 583.
0:12.0	Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio?
0:14.0	Because you'll feel outstanding.
0:16.0	And I always remember our motto,
0:18.0	which is the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding.
0:23.8	My darling, will you tease the topic of today's show?
0:27.4	So the title of today's show is accountability, comma, forgiveness.
0:33.7	Because it's not versus or either, and it's not about talking about them together,
0:41.1	it's about talking about them separately.
0:43.1	Okay.
0:43.5	But they in some way have an overlap.
0:45.8	But I didn't want to be like accountability and forgiveness because they don't have to go
0:50.0	together that way.
0:50.6	Accountability, period, forgiveness, period.
0:53.8	We could do that too. We don't have to put
0:55.8	a comma. We could put both. But first, I'm going to do this. Turn them in a bad. Terminant of bad.
1:05.0	Oh, that's an old school. So Turnament and Bad is something Kathy and I did like for the first five years of the podcast and haven't done it since.
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