That's what letting go is. It's realizing that you can't move forward when you're holding the tail of the past, you know, you're not going to go anywhere.

Welcome to the one you feed.

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.

And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

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Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Megan Feldman-Bettengord, an award-winning writer and journalist.

Megan has reported from many countries and her journalism has appeared in publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Psychology Today, Salon, Glamour, Newsday and many others.

Megan is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Triumph of the Heart, Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, which explores forgiveness through science, stories and memoir.

She holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

And here's the interview with Megan Feldman-Bettengord.

Hi, Megan. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's going to be here.

I am excited to have you on your book is called Triumph of the Heart, Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World.

And you have in it one of my favorite quotes of all time, which is, I won't get it exact, but Nelson Mandela talking about how hating other people or resenting other people is like drinking poison and expecting your enemy to die.

And that phrase has been incredibly helpful to me in my life once I truly understood it as a true fact.

Yes, it's a powerful quote and message, absolutely.

So we will get much deeper into all that here in a minute, but let's start like we always do with the parable.

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