Latest / Celeste The Therapist / Ep 480 The Power of Forgiveness: Letting Go of Anger and Resentment
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- 0:23All right, hi. Let me just go live on Instagram. Oh,
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- 1:11Let me see. What am I doing wrong? Hold on. Settings,
- 1:27No audio on Instagram. I
- 1:32wonder why. That sucks. Let
- 1:36me try to get off my mic and see if that works. Can't
- 1:46Oh, you have audio? OK. Wes, that's just you.
- 1:50Oh, OK. I'm
- 1:56over here troubleshooting. Man.
- 2:02It's good here? OK. YouTube is good. All right. I'm going to keep going.
- 2:06OK, cool. So you
- 2:10blame me? Of course you're going to blame me. No accountability, right? I
- 2:13could go into a whole topic about that, but I'm not I'll digress. My
- 2:20name is Celeste. I'm a therapist from Boston. I
- 2:24come on Wednesdays, 12 PM Eastern Standard Time to talk about things
- 2:28that people go through. And in my stories on
- 2:31Instagram, I share a lot, and
- 2:35I let people pick topics. And this came in number
- 2:39one, forgiveness. We're going to talk about forgiveness today. But if you don't know,
- 2:43the podcast episodes stream on all
- 2:46social media platforms, but also on audio podcasts. So
- 2:50last week, we talked about the body keeps the score. And,
- 2:53uh, that streaming now and, uh, the week prior
- 2:57to that, we talked about, uh, grieving the life of the grieving,
- 3:01the loss of the life you thought you'd have. Uh, so that was pretty
- 3:04powerful. Those are all streaming on our podcasting platform. So if
- 3:08you, um, are an audio listener, then
- 3:12you can check those episodes out. But today we're talking about forgiveness. Forgiveness
- 3:17is a subject that a lot of
- 3:20people struggle with. And before I start talking about that, I just want
- 3:23people to know that I'm not telling you you have to forgive because I've seen a
- 3:27lot of posts in where people, for them, the
- 3:31idea, the concept doesn't work. It doesn't work for them. And that's fine.
- 3:34So that means that this episode is 100% not for you. But
- 3:38these are for people that feel that they've allowed
- 3:41a lot of a huge subject. I know they've allowed a lot of
- 3:45their stuff from the past and
- 3:48it's still affecting them today. Uh, so my goal is
- 3:51to kind of give you another idea or mindset
- 3:55around like forgiveness and kind of like what
- 3:58that looks like. And I'm a very visual learner. So I always, uh,
- 4:02have slides, uh, when I do this podcast. Um, so when I think
- 4:05about what forgiveness is, uh, it says it's a con for people that are listening.
- 4:09Um, it's a conscious decision to let go of negative feelings
- 4:12such as anger, resentment and hostility towards someone
- 4:16who has harmed you. It's not just about accepting
- 4:20what's happened or stop being angry, but rather a
- 4:23voluntary change in your feelings and attitudes and behaviors. So
- 4:27when I think about the anger, resentment and hostility that comes up
- 4:31for people, It's a hard way to live life, right? Um,
- 4:34you know, things could have happened 20 years ago, 10 years
- 4:38ago, five years ago. And, uh, if you're finding
- 4:41yourself feeling so consumed by it, um, and
- 4:44not letting it go, um, that's really hard. And
- 4:48when I, I want you to think about why forgiveness is important. Cause I'm talking
- 4:51about this for a reason. I've been a therapist for a really long time. I've worked with
- 4:54people for a long time. I've had to forgive. I've
- 4:58held on to things. So I've realized the power in it. And again, if
- 5:01you are somebody that doesn't believe in it, this message isn't for you, clearly.
- 5:05But some of the reasons why it's important to work on forgiveness,
- 5:10forgiving people can help you heal emotionally and move on from past
- 5:14hurts. So when you're holding on to all this anger and
- 5:17resentment and other negative emotions, It can lead to
- 5:21stress, anxiety, and other physical health problems,
- 5:24right? Forgiveness can help release those negative emotions and
- 5:28allow you to feel more at peace. And for people listening,
- 5:31I got this from TrueMyIdentity.com, a
- 5:34blog post. when you are holding on
- 5:38to stuff. So when you think about some of the physical stuff you go through
- 5:41or people go through, a lot of times we only equate it to
- 5:45medical, like, oh, we got diabetes, high blood pressure, high
- 5:49cholesterol. We'll name those things, but we'll look
- 5:52at it only physically, right? We don't recognize how
- 5:56some of the baggage that we're carrying is sitting in
- 5:59our heart, is sitting in our bloodstreams. It's creating
- 6:02a lot of medical stuff from the fact that
- 6:06we're holding on. And when you think about,
- 6:10well, why should I forgive? I really want you to think about how
- 6:14when you work on releasing that stuff, it'll probably help
- 6:18some of the physical stuff that you have going on dismantle. Unforgiveness
- 6:23can actually turn into physical, yes, yeah. Literally,
- 6:27and I don't think people realize that how when you hold on to
- 6:30things, like physically, you can feel it. And if you're not in tune with
- 6:34your body, you don't even recognize that it's happening. And
- 6:37you're right, Miss Gentee, it's hard to forgive. And
- 6:41that's why, as I'm talking about this, it's not an overnight fix. It's
- 6:45a thing where, you know, if you listen to me or my podcast or anything I
- 6:48talk about, I say the mind believes what you tell it and it
- 6:52focuses on the things that's in your head, right? So if in
- 6:55your mind, like for instance, you're saying it's hard to forgive, which I agree in
- 6:59your mind, if you start focusing on, I want to
- 7:02work on releasing this, your mind's going to help you find
- 7:06ways to release it. If in your mind you stay, I
- 7:09can't believe this happened. I can't believe they did this to me. Your mind's going
- 7:12to keep putting, placing you in a victim space. Hey,
- 7:17Crystal, I'm so glad you're here. So that's why it's important. When
- 7:21you are able to forgive, it can help release a
- 7:24lot of the ailments that you are holding on
- 7:27to. But why is it so challenging, right? Because
- 7:31as you said, it's really challenging. For
- 7:35one, fear of getting hurt again, fear of feeling weak or foolish,
- 7:39or fear of intimacy from past trauma or emotional wounds,
- 7:42right? Sometimes, like, holding onto this has been part
- 7:46of your identity. If I forgive, does that mean that
- 7:49I'm weak? No, it doesn't mean that you're weak, right? Like, I need to
- 7:52hold on to this. Sometimes it's like a badge, right? Anger.
- 7:56You're still feeling anger and wanting to get even. I get
- 8:00it 100%. Like, wanting people
- 8:04to feel what you felt. Wanted that person to feel what you felt. It
- 8:08makes sense. You're human. Like, that's a rational mindset. I'm
- 8:11not saying that's irrational to feel that way. My
- 8:15point in talking about this is saying, continuing
- 8:19to stay in that space, it harms you, not
- 8:22the other person. Self-blame, blaming yourself
- 8:26for what happened, lack of remorse, this is a big one too.
- 8:30If the person who hurts you may not show remorse, that's
- 8:34really hard because it feels like some people will be like, oh,
- 8:37but they're walking around as if everything's okay. Or
- 8:42they seem like they're happy, especially if you still see them or you follow them
- 8:45on social media. right? And so you're looking at their highlighted reels
- 8:49and you're comparing it to all the pain you're feeling inside. And
- 8:53I just think about how you continue to harm
- 8:56yourself when you're looking for someone else to take the
- 9:00responsibility of where you're at. So what happened wasn't
- 9:04your fault, right? But when it comes to where you
- 9:07are in healing, it's kind of like you're looking for that person to
- 9:11heal you. I want to, um, share this like two minute clip
- 9:14from Will Smith. He, uh, I, I seen this a couple, a few years ago
- 9:17and I always share it with people. Um, when I'm talking about
- 9:21fault and responsibility, and I think it's gonna really help,
- 9:25um, you kind of reframe some things and, um,
- 9:29How do you start and where to begin? Yes. Yes. They
- 9:33are walking around like they did nothing. Yes. So I
- 9:36hear you. Right. And I understand. I have these conversations daily,
- 9:39so I completely understand where your mind goes. And
- 9:43I'm not saying that that person is is
- 9:47happy, I'm saying you don't know what is really going on
- 9:51in that person's world. Because again, you're only looking at the highlighted
- 9:54row. So I want
- 9:58to share this clip
- 10:02from Will Smith really
- 10:11I was just having a debate with a friend of mine, and
- 10:15we got stuck on the difference between fault and responsibility, she
- 10:20kept talking about how something was somebody's fault somebody's fault, and I was like it
- 10:23really don't matter whose fault it is that something is broken.
- 10:32not somebody's fault if their father was an abusive alcoholic,
- 10:36but it's for damn sure their responsibility to
- 10:39figure out how they're going to deal with those traumas and try to make a life out
- 10:43of it. It's not your fault if your partner cheated and
- 10:46ruined your marriage, but it is for damn sure your
- 10:50responsibility to figure out how to take that pain. and
- 10:53how to overcome that and build a happy life for
- 10:57yourself. Fault and responsibility do
- 11:00not go together. It sucks. But they don't. When
- 11:03something is somebody's fault, we want them to suffer.
- 11:07We want them punished. We want them to pay. We want it
- 11:10to be their responsibility to fix it. That's
- 11:14not how it works, especially when it's your heart. Your heart,
- 11:18your life, your happiness is your responsibility and
- 11:23your responsibility alone. As long as we're
- 11:26pointing a finger and stuck in
- 11:30whose fault something is, We're jammed
- 11:34and trapped into victim mode. When you're in victim mode, you
- 11:37are stuck in suffering. The road to power is in taking
- 11:41responsibility. Your heart, your life,
- 11:45your happiness is your responsibility and your
- 11:52So you know, when you hear that,
- 11:57you know, what he's saying around the fault and
- 12:01responsibility, I want to
- 12:04be clear that when you are not choosing
- 12:08to forgive that person, What's happening with your psyche
- 12:12a lot of times is that you start to put
- 12:15yourself in a victim mode. And so not just
- 12:18with that person or that situation, you're going to
- 12:21find yourself feeling like a victim in a lot of situations. You're
- 12:25going to find yourself feeling powerless because your mind is framing
- 12:29your body and everything around you as if you're a victim. When
- 12:33there's moments and situations where you're able to
- 12:36take responsibility, But it's hard for you to see that
- 12:39because your mind is so hyper focused on you being a victim. There
- 12:42are so many people that were victims that were neglected. So
- 12:46many things have happened, especially before you turn 18. And
- 12:51so your psyche was built around that trauma. and
- 12:55you could be 20, 30, 40, 50 years old, something
- 12:58happens that's unfortunately similar to what
- 13:02happened in the past. And what happens is your mind
- 13:06won't show you your responsibility. Your mind won't show you
- 13:09how you can change the way you are in that person's life.
- 13:12Your mind will keep you in the victim mentality and you'll find
- 13:16yourself feeling like you're on a rollercoaster wheel. And
- 13:20you'll find yourself always feeling down or
- 13:23always feeling like things are happening to you. That's a
- 13:26really hard way to live life. And so as you're thinking
- 13:30about this idea of forgiveness and you find yourself holding
- 13:34on to a lot of things, I want you to understand the fact that
- 13:37you're holding on to all of these things, it's causing
- 13:41you to look at life and look at people and look at
- 13:44situations in a way where you are not the
- 13:48person in power. And so if
- 13:51you want to change that, this is an area to work
- 13:54on. Now, another reason
- 13:58why we struggle with forgiveness, if you dwell on
- 14:02hurtful events or situation, grudges filled with resentment and hostility can
- 14:06take root. If you allow negative feelings
- 14:09to crowd out positive feelings, you might find yourself swallowed
- 14:13by bitterness or a sense of injustice. Some people
- 14:17are naturally more forgiving. So if you're not
- 14:21releasing the stuff that's happened, what's happening is like the root
- 14:25of your foundation is turning into a victim kind
- 14:28of mentality. Now, how to practice forgiveness, right?
- 14:32That was a question somebody had. And again, it's a daily practice
- 14:35and I want you to be mindful that it's not an overnight thing and that's okay. But
- 14:39when you're thinking about like, how can I practice forgiveness? One
- 14:43is acknowledging the situation. and naming your feelings
- 14:47and practicing self-compassion. A lot of times we're not
- 14:50naming our feelings. And when I talk about emotions, I'm going to just
- 14:53pull up this emotion chart. Uh, this is an emotion chart. You
- 14:57can Google emotion wheels. This is from beam. It's a black organization,
- 15:01um, that, um, has these emotions on a will. Um,
- 15:05if you Google, uh, feelings will, you'll find different variations of
- 15:08feelings will, We only know angry or happy,
- 15:12right? Our emotions are so complex. And
- 15:16if you have better language to talk about, like, you know what?
- 15:20I feel frustrated by what happened, or I feel jealous
- 15:24by X, Y, and Z. If you're actually naming these
- 15:27things and getting more specific with yourself, what
- 15:31you're allowing to happen is that you're allowing for your system
- 15:34to have more clarity on what's going on. I'll say like,
- 15:38if I start bleeding, I always use this example, if I start bleeding
- 15:42and my hands, and it's just like blood just starts coming, I'm
- 15:45going to be nervous because I don't know what's going on. If
- 15:49I got a paper cut, if I cut myself by accident and I start
- 15:52bleeding, yeah, it hurts, the pain is there, but I'm not freaking
- 15:56out because I know what's going on. When it comes to our emotions,
- 16:00because we haven't been taught how to work through them or how to
- 16:03work on them, what happens is all of
- 16:06us are feeling all these emotions, we're getting triggered,
- 16:11and we're responding off of that. So when you're
- 16:14able to name what you're feeling, name what happened, it
- 16:18releases it from you. If you're not naming that you feel jealous, if
- 16:21you're not naming that you feel frustrated, if you're not naming
- 16:24these things, you're gonna allow those emotions to have power
- 16:28over you and that you're not being fair to yourself. So
- 16:33letting it out is important. Again, holding onto things keeps
- 16:37you in a space of feeling like you're in pain
- 16:40all the time. Establishing clear boundaries.
- 16:44Sometimes some of the relationships around healing and
- 16:48forgiveness are people that you still have to work with, or maybe people
- 16:52you still have to see at family functions, or
- 16:55a parent, or a child, right? And
- 16:58so it would be, you know, some situations you
- 17:02could just be like, I'm all set with that person. I never want to see them again. And some
- 17:05situations, unfortunately, you have to still be in the same space
- 17:09with them. And so in those moments, you have to
- 17:12be mindful of establishing boundaries
- 17:16with that person. The boundaries are to protect you. And
- 17:19boundaries are really hard to do. But they're important. And
- 17:23so really being mindful, what's my boundary with this person? What am I
- 17:26going to allow and not allow because I'm no longer a victim, right? I
- 17:30have power over my situation. Leaning into
- 17:33empathy, if it's appropriate, right? Communicate
- 17:37to create closure if that's possible. And seeking support
- 17:41is always a great part. And
- 17:44then finding the lesson in reclaiming your power. And
- 17:48so when I talk about reclaiming your power, where
- 17:52you have power over your situation, but when I say finding
- 17:55the lesson in it, what does that mean? Forgiving is
- 17:59empowering. It allows you to release the power the
- 18:02offender holds over you, emotions, enabling you to regain control over
- 18:06your feelings and your life. So by forgiving, you're
- 18:09choosing peace over pain. Right? When
- 18:13I think about choosing peace over pain, you know, some people think you got to
- 18:16have the last word, or if they say this, I'm going to say that. Right? They're
- 18:19talking about me. I'm going to talk about them. Why engage in
- 18:23that energy? Energy is transferable. I don't think people realize this, the
- 18:26way you engage or the way you feel like you have to win. Right?
- 18:30So I'm holding on to this because it's really messed up what happened, and they shouldn't
- 18:34have did it. And you're talking about it. Years are going by. You're still
- 18:37talking about it. But also what's happening, is
- 18:41that you're finding yourself in stagnation. So
- 18:45when you're not choosing to forgive or let things go, you
- 18:49see the growth over stagnation, you can either grow from it,
- 18:53or you can stay in the same place. And also you can
- 18:56free yourself from resentment being
- 19:00resentful doesn't feel good. It ages you, right?
- 19:03It creates this thing in you where not only like physically
- 19:08it ages you, but inside it ages you because you're
- 19:12so constricted. If you're holding onto all this resentment and
- 19:15pain, how do you allow positivity in? If you're holding
- 19:19onto all this darkness and pain, How in the world do
- 19:22you allow the light in? How do you see the beauty in
- 19:25life? You don't see it. Everything feels dark. And
- 19:29then when the dark things happen and come, it just impacts you
- 19:33more. Your relationships, not forget the person that harm you,
- 19:36your relationships with other people are going to suffer because you're
- 19:40never going to see your role in the situation. You're always going to find yourself feeling like
- 19:43a victim. I want
- 19:46to show one more clip, right? Because sometimes
- 19:51analogies are helpful for us to, well,
- 19:54I know for me, and I know I'm not the only one, but I have
- 19:58a hard time conceptualizing things sometimes when I first learn it.
- 20:01And analogies really help me. I'll be like, OK, break it down like this.
- 20:05And it really helps me. I'm a slower learner. People would never
- 20:08know. But it takes me a while to grasp new information. So
- 20:13my friend Sean Marshall, I'm going to share a clip. where
- 20:17he gave this analogy. And then the last, before we, after
- 20:20that clip, I wanna just talk about the impact of forgiveness, like what it
- 20:24will do for you, because I think it's powerful. Like I'm
- 20:27asking you to do these things. And I think
- 20:30that when things are hard to do, if you keep the goal
- 20:34in mind, it helps you do it, right? If you want
- 20:37to work on losing weight
- 20:41because you're healthy, you don't wanna be on medication, When
- 20:44it's hard to get up and go take a walk, if you can
- 20:48think about, I'm doing this because I want to be able to move better,
- 20:51I want to be there for my grandchildren or my child, whatever it
- 20:54is, you hold that goal in mind. It keeps you in
- 20:58a position to keep pushing forward. So if you understand, like,
- 21:02Maybe you need to reframe your idea on what forgiveness is.
- 21:06Or maybe I need to think about me forgiving this
- 21:09person or the thing that happened is going to allow me
- 21:13to be free. It's going to allow me to experience life differently.
- 21:17Maybe that will allow me to keep pushing forward, even when it
- 21:20feels hard. So I'm going to share this clip really
- 21:33Share. All right. Where
- 21:37is it? Oh, okay. All
- 21:47Years old, I remember crossing the street to get to the ice
- 21:51cream truck. Remember those? And there was a limousine coming
- 21:55down the street. And I didn't see the limousine. I was trying to get to
- 21:58the ice cream truck. I got hit by the limousine. I lay
- 22:01there on the ground, mostly shocked by what was happening.
- 22:05I didn't get hit that hard. But the limousine driver immediately got
- 22:09out of the car, came over to check on me, offered to take me
- 22:12and my mother to the hospital, sat there. in the
- 22:15emergency room while I was evaluated, waited
- 22:19until I was checked out and sent home, took us back
- 22:23home and offered to do anything he possibly
- 22:27could to make sure that I was okay. The
- 22:31blessing of that situation is that the person who hurt
- 22:34me took responsibility and walked with me to
- 22:38make sure that I was okay. The reality is
- 22:41life doesn't always go that way. Many of us have been hurt by
- 22:44people who kept it moving. And you know what? We
- 22:48still are laying in the middle of the street. We're
- 22:52still stuck wherever we got hit, wherever we got hurt,
- 22:56waiting for the person who hurt us to come
- 22:59back and help us heal. I got a question for you. What if they're not coming? What
- 23:04if the person who hurt you, what if the person who harmed you, isn't
- 23:08coming back to help you. So many times we wait for
- 23:11people to come and apologize, for them to come and repent, and
- 23:15for them to come and help take responsibility for
- 23:18the ways in which they hurt us. But there are people who've hurt us who don't
- 23:21even know that they've hurt us. There are people who have hurt us who cannot, they
- 23:25don't have the capacity to take responsibility for
- 23:28the ways in which they hurt us. Guess what? I got some tough news
- 23:31for you. Even if they don't take responsibility for
- 23:35hurting you, you still have to take responsibility for
- 23:44So the analogy, you know,
- 23:48I thought it was powerful. He got hit by a limousine and
- 23:52the limousine driver stayed with them and made sure they were OK. And
- 23:56I use that analogy. You know, it wasn't
- 23:59his fault he got hit by the limousine. Right. The limousine driver could have drove
- 24:03off. Does he just sit there and wait for somebody
- 24:06to come save him? Um, if somebody
- 24:10comes and he says, no, no, no, I went the limousine driver because they're the
- 24:13one who harmed me. Literally, that's what happens when
- 24:17you are in the same space, you're stuck. Um,
- 24:22and you're missing out on life when that happens. And so
- 24:25the last slide I want to share is the impact of forgiveness, like how
- 24:30Is it going to help me if I work through this and start like kind of
- 24:33reframing the way I'm looking at it? So mental
- 24:38health, forgiveness can help reduce anxiety, depression
- 24:42and symptoms of trauma and improve your self-esteem. It
- 24:45can also help you feel more satisfied with your life. less
- 24:49hostile and angry. A lot of the anger and hostility
- 24:52that you may always find yourself feeling, you know, this, this
- 24:56people that, you know, people have come to me for anger management or
- 25:00people, they say, people say I'm an angry person. Excuse
- 25:03me. And as I work with them, I'm
- 25:07like, they're a hurt person, right? The anger
- 25:10and the hostility, they're masking it. The
- 25:15kindness and the person that they are is being masked
- 25:19by all the hostility and anger because they've been hurt. And
- 25:23so every relationship they have, not just intimate, but
- 25:27friendships, family, there's always this anger
- 25:30undertone or hostility that is coming out because Um,
- 25:35there's this mindset for your system. Your system is
- 25:38doing what it's designed to do. I've been hurt in the past. And so
- 25:41let me put up my guard because you're going to hurt me again.
- 25:45That's what my mind tells me, but my mind is designed to
- 25:48help me with life, but I have to work on navigating it.
- 25:52And if I'm not telling my mind that this is not the same situation, if
- 25:56I'm not releasing what's happening, all of my relationships are
- 25:59going to struggle. I'm going to find myself always feeling angry, always feeling
- 26:02hostile. So the hostility
- 26:06and being angry can improve your relationships. can
- 26:10improve stress. Stress is a killer. I don't know
- 26:13if people know this, you know, it's not by accident. If you look
- 26:17at zip codes and a lower socioeconomic status, meaning people, um,
- 26:21that, uh, you know, don't have a lot of money, health concerns, the
- 26:25death rate is, uh, lower. I mean, it's your, your
- 26:29age when you pass away is lower. than people in a higher socioeconomic
- 26:33status. The stress of, how am I going to pay my bills? The
- 26:36stress of being Black in America, especially
- 26:40for Black men, right? Or Black in the workplace. The
- 26:43stress really ages you. It keeps your system in
- 26:47high alert. And working on releasing things can allow
- 26:50for your stress to be really dismantled. So
- 26:53forgiveness can help relieve stress. A study found that increased forgiveness was
- 26:57associated with decreased stress. And then the
- 27:00biggest one is physical health, right? Lower blood pressure,
- 27:04stronger immune system, improved heart health.
- 27:08Those are just some of the ways that if you can work on
- 27:11forgiveness, you can find yourself feeling
- 27:17different overall. So I hope this was helpful. Understand
- 27:20that whether we're talking about today's topic
- 27:24or any topic, there may be some things I talk about that doesn't sit
- 27:27with you or Like, you're like, nah, I'm all set with that. That's totally
- 27:30fine. I'm not here. My message isn't for everyone. But
- 27:35this is for someone. I know that. And the reason why
- 27:39the messages and the things that I talk about always hits
- 27:42home is because I've been doing this work for over 20 years.
- 27:47I work with people, all socioeconomic
- 27:51status, race. And the reality is,
- 27:54it's like, regardless of where we come from or our
- 27:57money situation, the issues and
- 28:01the things that we need to heal and to have peace
- 28:04are the same. Like I find myself saying things in
- 28:09different ways, but the theme of it is the same. And
- 28:12so a lot of the topics that I talk about is because, you
- 28:15know, a lot of people are struggling in the same way. Um,
- 28:19this was amazing. I need to hear this. Yes. I'm glad. I'm glad it was helpful.
- 28:23Um, so understand forgiveness takes time. Don't
- 28:27beat yourself up, have compassion with yourself. Um, whether
- 28:30we're talking about forgiveness or any other subject, be mindful
- 28:35that, um, If you put your mind
- 28:38to something, it's not like people say, oh, I manifested it. When you put your
- 28:41mind to something, your mind is going to help you get the answers, right?
- 28:46I'm starting a group practice, never had people working under
- 28:49me before, and it feels scary. And if
- 28:52I sat in the fear, which is true, like things cannot work
- 28:56out, that's true. If I sit in that, my mind is
- 28:59going to keep showing me ways that it's not going to work out. But
- 29:03if I say, OK, it may not work out, but then we never
- 29:06explore the other side. We'll say, what if this doesn't work out?
- 29:09And then we sit, and there's a period. We never say comma, but
- 29:13what if it does? And so for me, with anything that
- 29:16I do, what if it does is the thing that I dwell on.
- 29:20And so because I'm dwelling on it, I can control where my
- 29:23mind goes. Because I'm dwelling on it, my mind is showing me
- 29:26the possibilities. And so that's so important to understand.
- 29:31Hey, LaDonna. All right. Bye, Crystal. Hey, Carolyn. Hey,
- 29:35Chad. So I will see you guys next Wednesday, 12 p.m.
- 29:39Eastern Standard Time. And this episode will be streaming on
- 29:43all podcasting platforms starting
- 29:47next week. If you like what you hear and you want to hear other episodes,
- 29:50if you go to Celeste Therapist dot com, you can find other episodes.
- 29:54And I'm on YouTube. If you're not watching me on YouTube, you
- 29:58can find me on YouTube and you can find a lot of these episodes on YouTube. Thank