Why Should I Forgive? with Derek Stone

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Is there someone in your life that you are finding it hard to forgive? A sibling, friend, or parent? We all have grudges, but we don’t realize how much emotional and mental bandwidth they’re stealing from us.

Derek Stone is the author of Why Should I Forgive? He grew up in poverty and was sexually abused by his stepfather. His bitterness led him into drugs, alcohol, and dysfunctional relationships. But he found the faith he needed to forgive and move on. Now his mission is to empower people to transform their lives and walk them through the hell of confronting past trauma and teaching them to forgive.

Derek talks about his painful journey out of hate, anger, and shame and how the power of forgiveness can free us to create the full and happy lives we were meant live.

"For true forgiveness to happen, something has to die."—Derek Stone

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic?
0:32.0	Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show.
0:32.9	And hey, got a question for you.
0:35.4	Is there somebody in your life,
0:36.7	or maybe there's more than one,
0:39.2	that you find it hard to forgive that person
0:42.1	because they have wronged you in some way shape or form.
0:45.0	Maybe it's a sibling, maybe it's an old friend, maybe it's a parent, who knows, but I think what
0:50.8	we can all agree is holding a grudge is something that's really common,
0:55.0	but what we don't really understand is how much bandwidth emotionally and mentally that that takes up
1:01.0	and how much just how heavy that feels to hold a grudge. My
1:05.0	guest today is Derek Stone who actually wrote a book called Why Should I
1:10.0	Forgive his story? Whoa. His parents were divorced when he was five years old and as a troubled
1:17.5	teen he blamed his father for all the bad things that happened to him as a child. He was sexually abused and
1:24.2	sometimes had no idea where his next meal was coming from. He lived behind a facade.
1:29.6	No one really knew his true self and he would spend time praying for a better life
1:35.4	praying to one day grow up and be a father that his dad couldn't be to him.
1:41.0	And this is where this vision of forgiving really came to Derek. So in this
1:46.7	particular show, Derek and I went so far down the rabbit hole of having this
1:51.6	conversation around forgiveness and I know that you guys are going to really enjoy it.
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