[BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 9: Blame Scars, Forgiveness Heals: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We’re all struggling with resentment right now—separation from family and friends, lost jobs and furloughs, cancelled graduations and vacations, and even struggling to come up with grace for the people living right inside our very houses. But our guest today, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, reminds us how healing and freeing it can be to wrap this season—and the rest of our lives—in forgiveness, even when it’s incredibly hard to encounter our pain and try to let it all go. Katherine’s spent the last few years in the quest to understand forgiveness after a terrible rift with a close friend. And in her journey, she talked to more than 20 people from all walks of life who have encountered tragedy and personal demons—everyone from headline-making names like Elizabeth Smart to friend-of-the-podcast Nadia Bolz-Weber. Katherine recorded her conversations and insights in her brand-new book The Gift of Forgiveness. Katherine’s words will fill you with hope because, as she says, “When we learn to embrace forgiveness, it opens us up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility.”

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome to our special quarantine queens series on the For the Love podcast.
0:11.7	I'm so happy that you're here today. Before we get started, I wanted to give a quick shout out to
0:17.6	International Justice Mission, who's making this whole episode possible. You've probably heard of
0:23.2	IJM, they are the largest anti-slavery organization in the world, and they work to rescue people out
0:30.6	of slavery and sex trafficking. They've actually recently turned some of their attention to some
0:35.9	serious efforts to help vulnerable and remote communities during the time of COVID-19. They have
0:42.9	so many amazing stories of how they have helped people. I've seen it firsthand in traveling with them,
0:48.1	and they are the kind of stories that give you faith that even the worst situations can still have
0:55.5	beauty, can still have a wonderful outcome, can still have justice. So I highly recommend that you
1:02.2	go to IJM.org slash share hope now to watch these stories. It really helps in the swirl of bad news
1:13.4	to see some good and beautiful things happening. Okay everybody let's just do this together wherever
1:19.6	you are, whether you're sitting or standing or moving or driving, let's take a deep breath. Here,
1:26.0	I'll do it with you. Okay in.
1:34.2	There. That was nice. Listen to just a tiny baby pause in your day. That's actually how I am
1:42.8	settling my brain at night when I am laying in bed and cannot get the gears to stop moving.
1:49.3	I'm trying to do like six or seven deep breaths like that in a row and it's has such a calming effect on
1:54.0	me. I can't believe how useful it is. One powerful way that we can move through this journey is just to take
2:00.5	care of take care of yourself, right? Just take care of yourself. It's that oxygen mask on the plane
2:07.6	and for me a lot of times this starts by like checking in with my breath. Just taking one tiny
2:13.0	minute to pause and breathe and just like that it has just a very calming effect on all my systems.
2:20.9	And so okay so speaking of crazy right now it's just possible that your connections to not just
2:32.1	yourself but maybe to the other to other people that you live with perhaps or that you are trying
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