You are listening to episode 107, Finding Joy, The Power of Forgiveness.

Welcome back to the Pete Stock Talk podcast and the Finding Joy series, which I began in 2022,

and it has been one of my most favorite series and actually one of your most favorite series.

This Finding Joy series is really a mindset shift that I hope I can foster in you as you parent your child.

I'm doing this because I strongly believe that in order for us to parent our children with our authentic selves.

We have to undo or reset the negative stories that we tell ourselves that have caused us insecurity, fear, worry, and essentially rob our joy as mothers and fathers.

So this Finding Joy series is a mindset shift. It's a mindset coaching that really will help you in those little things that you may not realize

actually play a huge effect on how we show up for our children and for ourselves.

This series will not only make you a more mindful parent, it will truly help reframe your mindset and change your relationship with others and your insight into yourself.

Something that I really love to discuss with parents and I share personal stories, I also share stories that have really inspired me because I really think that when you hear the stories,

it's going to really resonate and make you realize, you know what? I've been going through this too or I've been stuck in the cycle of negativity or resentment and I really need to break out of it.

This is not a substitute for therapy. This is really just me sharing stories and sharing tips that I have learned through my life in my own mindfulness journey

in my own journey to self-growth that have really inspired other moms in my office, my friends, and I realize I need to really start putting this on the podcast because this is really important to parenting as well.

So in this episode, I am talking about the power of forgiveness and I think forgiveness gets a bad rap that forgiveness means that we are forgiving the people that have heard us or the experiences that have happened.

We're forgiving the perpetrator of our grief and our trauma, but you're going to learn by the end of this episode why the concept of forgiveness is so important for self-growth.

For those of you who know me, I had a traumatic delivery when Ryan was born. This was about two years ago from the timing of this podcast, which was associated with a lot of grief, anger, resentment.

Remember, grief is encompassing of so many different emotions.

I also had a childhood that was very beautiful when I look back, but I also had some generational traumas that were bestowed upon me that I did not want to pass to my son.

And it was before I even became a mom that I started doing the work to undo that generational trauma.

I actually recorded a podcast episode, episode 108, with Jess from our Mama Village where we take a deeper dive into generational trauma.

But I felt that we needed to have a separate episode about finding joy and forgiveness because it's so important in so many different aspects in the generational trauma that's done from our childhood and also with the traumas that we may go through as adults.

I'm also going to discuss forgiveness as it applies to a very personal relationship to someone that's really important, my husband, and our marriage.

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