Life Question of the Week: 12.5.2025
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Our first Life Question comes from Jade in Alexandria, VA: After years of suppressing childhood pain, Jade is now confronting the truth about her father's long-standing dysfunction—infidelity, alcoholism, and a toxic blended family. She wants to have a healthy relationship only with him, but how can she navigate authenticity, boundaries, and spiritual growth when family pressure runs deep?
Next, Shay wonders whether it's possible to feel both genuine gratitude and genuine dislike at the same time—especially when her new home, while a blessing, also triggers feelings of lack because it wasn't the house she truly wanted. Does her mixed emotions sabotage her spiritual practice?
Finally, Michael leads a meditation on focusing on the Real and Eternal You that is untouched by time and the human experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Dynamic Blessings Dynamic blessings to all of you, and I appreciate you at your time for stopping and taking care of yourself, stopping and taking care of yourself, stopping and taking back your mind, life questions. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm appreciating you for doing that, but I'm speaking for your soul. |
| 0:55.0 | Because your soul is saying in substance, be careful where you give your attention to. |
| 1:02.0 | Because oftentimes people give their attention to the newsreels or scanning through social media and things of that particular nature. |
| 1:11.8 | But what you've done right now, you're giving your attention to your own growth development |
| 1:16.6 | and unfoldment and having your mind seated with possibilities of transformation. |
| 1:22.8 | That's extremely important, and I'm so glad that you are choosing what's valuable for your soul. |
| 1:29.4 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:30.7 | Welcome to Take Back Your Mind, Life Question. |
| 1:32.8 | I am Michael B. Beckwith, the founder of Agape International Spiritual Center, which is the |
| 1:38.2 | main sponsor of the podcast and the author of Spiritual Liberation and other books and the host of Take Back Your Mind. |
| 1:47.0 | Listen, we have a question from Jade and she is in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 1:55.0 | She said, I used to think I had a great relationship with my father. |
| 2:00.0 | But a year ago I was triggered when his wife made negative comments about my mother |
| 2:05.6 | and attending my dad's 60th birthday. |
| 2:09.5 | I discovered she had negative feelings towards my mother for 20 years. |
| 2:14.2 | This brought up some childhood trauma that I suppressed around my dad. |
| 2:19.3 | First, he's a functioning alcoholic, who went from being a corporate VP to not having |
| 2:25.3 | steady employment since 2009. |
| 2:28.3 | Second, he cheated on my mother, married his mistress, then cheated on her with the woman that is now his |
| 2:36.2 | current wife. Third, he has fostered a toxic, blended family dynamic and involving a lot of |
| 2:44.0 | manipulation, control, triangulation, and secrets. While I forgave my stepmother for her comments, I no longer wish to be a part of my |
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