I'm Danielle Laporte.

And essentially, this is a one-woman show about self-realization called With Love, Danielle.

I'll be talking about compassion, self-help fatigue, sex, joy, serving the world. This is about a spirituality that's

way more rock and roll than it is oppressive. I am not into making grand motivational promises,

but I can commit to showing up as fully, sincerely, authentically as possible with the intention of really alleviating suffering

and amplifying joy just for starters. It's about doing everything I can to help all of us feel

a little less crazy, a lot more full of possibility and clearly part of the solution.

Hello, my loves.

I would love to talk about one of my favorite topics, forgiving,

specifically asking for forgiveness from somebody else.

Not to be conflated with saying you're sorry or simply apologizing.

Those things are beautiful, but we're really going like full tilt heart-centered today with this one.

I'm going to push us with a scenario.

Let's imagine, can you bring to mind someone who has done

you wrong, someone who really did you wrong, someone who, like in all your years of therapy and

your actual legit earned wisdom, you can tell that they were really the agitator in the situation. They created a lot of the chaos.

Let's say that they were 80% responsible. You notice I almost had to blame. But let's just say

that, you know, in all logic, without a ton of judgment, they were 80% the cause of the problem,

whatever the demise or the fraction was. Okay, you're probably wanting an apology from them.

I get it. You might never get the apology. It doesn't matter. When we move into the mode of

self-reflection and responsibility and deep, deep self-acceptance, loving all of our

rightness and our righteousness and our wrongness. We get into a place where we want to

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