forgiveness is truly just releasing emotional attachment. It's releasing your ability or the

emotion's ability to have a reign over you. Hey guys, you're listening to the big conversations

podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman Smith. I'm an entrepreneur, a best-selling

author, and a Forbes most influential speaker. You're in the right place if you're ready to step

into the bigger life that you were destined for because we're about to get real on how to do so.

So let's get started with today's big conversation.

Hello, my friends, and welcome back to big important conversations.

This morning, I had a whole list of different topics and I thought that there was going to be

one that I wanted to talk about and I basically looked further down on the list,

kind of like a straggler idea, and all of a sudden, this huge

gust of other ideas and purpose behind that topic started to come up for me, which led to,

obviously there's no grand reveal here because you clicked on a episode with this title,

but talking about releasing grudges and forgiveness and what that really means. And this is a topic

that we usually don't love to talk about. I mean, honestly, that's just the truth, unless you're

trying to let go of something. But I want to take it from the standpoint of how grudges or holding

resentment towards anybody or any part of your past really is a block to your manifestations and how it interrupts that

energy flow. And I feel like I am ready to just get kind of personal, something that I've

never talked about publicly. That makes it sound so dramatic, but it was. It was like a huge

scar, scarring experience of my life, something that happened over a number of

years. And honestly, the reason I haven't talked about it is for one, it happened from when I was

11 to when I was 17. So that is like a huge chunk of time and almost kind of like childhood. And now that I'm

grown up and like out of college, sometimes I look back and I'm like, that's so young. I feel like

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