011 - Forgiveness & Emotional Processing

Greetings, Bettys (and Jacks)! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and now we’re serving up a healthy portion of delicious forgiveness, with some emotional processing on the side. That’s just what you wanted, right? We thought so.

 

Mary and Alexis talk about family traditions, Christmas cards (update: Mary’s cards are ordered! Yay!), interior design, and “rewriting” our holidays. Lexy talks about a quote she came across from Irish author James Stephens, in The Crock of Gold: “I have learned . . . that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and that what the heart knows to-day the head will understand to-morrow.” This leads into a discussion about emotional processing centers, and making peace with emotional triggers. Lexy also mentions her friend Andrea Ward Berg, whom we hope will be a special guest in the future.

 

We let our discussion go with the flow and take a lot of tangents, including learning what our bodies are saying when we are feeling certain emotions. And we get to a conversation about forgiveness, trust, and boundaries. Mary shares a couple of stories from her mission to Belgium and from her work as a surgical tech, and Lexy talks about her son Asher’s forgiveness timeline that answers to no one. We should avoid holding expectations for other people, especially when using religion or beliefs as leverage. As Lexy says, “Identify your boundaries, and don’t apologize for them.”

 

Our Better Betty Challenge this week is to find a way to re-equilibrate (recollaborate?) ourselves so that we can align our boundaries and our emotions in a way that feels right personally. That may be taking some extra time to process, rage clean, or even talk it out so that we understand what’s happening and how we want to respond. After all, as Mary says, “It’s your responsibility to take care of your peace.”

 

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