257. How to Finally Forgive with Nadia Bolz-Weber

Where does all our suffering come from and how can we free ourselves? Pastor, author, and speaker, Nadia Bolz-Weber, discusses how she finally became healed and whole enough to choose romantic love from freedom instead of desperation. With her characteristic raw honesty, Nadia shares that the secret to her healing has been “honestly, a lot of pain.” Plus, Nadia leads Abby to a heartbreaking, cathartic moment of clarity – and shares a blessing that she wrote for Abby and all queer people. About Nadia: Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran Pastor; founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver; host of The Confessional podcast; and author of three NYT bestselling memoirs: Pastrix, Accidental Saints, and SHAMELESS. Nadia writes and speaks about personal failings, recovery, grace, faith, and really whatever the hell else she wants to. She always sits in the corner with the other weirdos, and she can be found a couple days a week inside the Denver women’s prison where she is a volunteer chaplain. https://thecorners.substack.com/ IG: @sarcasticlutheran To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazing podcast

This podcast is an amazing gift. You tackle such difficult topics with such grace and honesty, and always make me smile at the same time. Thank you!

vulnerability, depth, empathy

We are all connected and need eachother. I going to follow Nadia's podcast. I was touched!

Blessings

I needed to hear that blessing at the end. Thank you for this, and every episode!!

Love

I love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love. Especially love the blessing. Thank you!

BEST PODCAST EVER!!

Each one of YOU TRULY ROCK! Love the honest (particularly the manifesting moment, the whispering 😂 yoga instructor and the thrown yoga mat), shared stories (the heartbreak, woman’s prison) and the blessing (perfectly nailed the divorce and marriage)!

Good on so many levels

I just listened to this for the third time in the last 48 hours. There is so much good stuff in here, I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss a word, a joke, a tear.

The perfect combination of personalities and the way Glennon, Abby, and Sister and the guest always have such chemistry, and empathy, and humor always strikes me, and so it is with this episode.

Nadia is a powerful force and she hilariously imparts her wisdom in all of its raw, flawed, human-ness in a way that is so relatable I want to share it with all of my people. And I have some people that NEED to hear this – I have shared it with them, and I hope they’re able to HEAR it. Even if it is something that they have seen and read and heard before . . . but maybe THIS time it may be different. Maybe THIS time something will help them begin to allow them to love themselves, to forgive themselves. I consider myself a spiritual person, not a religious person (I don’t trust the “institution”). I felt like I could completely align with Nadia's views and her ministry. I vaguely knew of Nadia in the past, but now . . . . I am already looking at my next Audible purchase – it will be one of her books. She Is someone I am committing to follow and learn from.

There are SO many deeply powerful moments, many hilaiorus moments, some aha moments, and a couple of REALLY beautiful moments. Here are a few of the latter: a text exchange between Nadia and Anne about why we humans need each other, Nadia’s blessing to Abby, and Abby’s emotional bombshell that’s emerged as a result of doing the HARD and painful work on the journey to wholeness.

Dang. It’s just SO good!