Hannah Hammond and a guest discuss how forgiveness of family hurt shifted them from victimhood to taking responsibility for their lives. They emphasize recognizing turning points and choosing not to make excuses, even when circumstances were difficult.
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I thought I was like, the victor and everything happens for me and all these things. But until I was able to forgive my father and my mother and my brothers and like the people that had hurt me as a child, which we all have, those people, we all carry on to these resentment. And there's things that happen in our lives that hurt and are hard to get through. But when I was able to truly forgive is when I realized that I was being a victim. I think that attitude that you have towards it is everything because you've personally seen what happens if you have the opposite attitude.
That exactly the story you just told. My brother and I had the same parents. I succeeded. He took his own life. My sister and I had the same par. It really something that clicks inside you, someone that you meet along the way. So I could actually go through and say, these are the people who influenced my life from this time to this time to this time. So from my English teacher in high school, you know, early mentors, to different programs I joined, I can tell you the turning points. But the difference between me and a lot of people is when there's a turning point. I turned and I didn't make an excuse. I just said, this looks better than what I'm doing. And I think we just have to be open and not so locked into a doctrine that we get when we're young.