52. FORGIVING & FINDING PEACE with ASHLEY C. FORD

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 5:01 a.m.

b'1. How to find a way to live in peace: to actually love complicated parents without compromising our love for ourselves.\\n2. How we can\\u2019t change our past\\u2014and why Ashley says that forgiveness is accepting the fact that the past is never going to be different.\\n3. The importance of being able to hold two truths at the same time: that, for some of us, our parents did the best they could\\u2014and it wasn\\u2019t close to good enough.\\n4. Why Ashley says she struggles, even in adulthood, to accept love and care from people who are not obligated to love and care for her.\\n5. Why anger often reveals our passion points\\u2014and for Ashley, why that leads her to show up for children.\\nAbout Ashley:\\xa0\\nAshley C. Ford\\u2019s New York Times best-selling memoir,\\xa0Somebody\\u2019s Daughter, was published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. Ford is the former host of\\xa0The Chronicles of Now\\xa0podcast, co-host of The HBO companion podcast\\xa0Lovecraft Country Radio. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.\\n\\nFord has written or guest-edited for\\xa0ELLE Magazine,\\xa0Slate,\\xa0Teen Vogue,\\xa0New York Magazine,\\xa0The New York Times,\\xa0Domino,\\xa0Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications.\\n\\nBook:\\xa0Somebody\\u2019s Daughter\\nInstagram:\\xa0@smashfizzle\\nTwitter:\\xa0@iSmashFizzle\\xa0\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'