Welcome to episode 229 of Live Happy Now. This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining

us again this week. If you've ever struggled with forgiving someone or forgiving yourself,

that makes you pretty much human, and it also means you're going to love what this week's guest has

to say. Stacey Kaiser is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, and author who has some

great insight on how forgiveness and self-forgiveness affect our overall well-being.

But she doesn't just tell us how much we need it in our lives.

She gives us actionable advice for forgiving others, forgiving ourselves, and discovering

greater happiness.

Stacey, thank you for coming back on Live Happy now and being our guest again.

Oh, I always love being a part of anything that has to do with Live Happy.

Well, it's funny how this one came about because I saw that you on your Instagram TV,

you had posted a video about self-forgiveness and forgiveness. And it was so compelling

that I was like, I think all of our listeners are going to want to hear about this.

Oh, well, thank you. Yeah. So I wanted to know, first of all, what prompted you to address that topic

on Instagram? Well, so this is interesting, I think. My daughter, who is

newly out of college and working in publicity, has been telling me that I walk around preaching

all kinds of things to people and that a lot of people aren't benefiting from it. And that I should

start thinking about making some short, you know, three to four minute videos

about the things that I talk about most.

And interestingly enough, forgiveness has been a big topic of conversation

because people really struggle with it, especially if someone has done something

that they view as toxic or inappropriate or, you know, unforgivable.

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