This episode is for the leaders, the “strong ones,” and the people who never had the luxury of falling apart.

We’re talking about what self-forgiveness actually requires when you’re still carrying impact in your body—and why it feels terrifying when your identity was built on composure, responsibility, and survival.

This is truth work, not comfort talk. If you’re ready to stop punishing the person who kept you alive—you belong here.

Read the companion post here https://deniseglee.com/forgiving-what-still-hurts/.

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Most of us were raised to evaluate ourselves through metrics, outcomes, and improvement curves. But healing doesn’t follow performance logic — it follows honesty, gentleness, and self-trust.

In this episode, Denise invites listeners to close out the year without grading themselves. No scorecards. No gold stars. Just a quiet, human inventory of how life felt, where clarity emerged, and where old bargains finally fell away. This is a year-end reflection for people who are done performing their way through growth.

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Most high-functioning adults don’t recognize the moment when their body stops pushing and starts decomposing years of pressure.

Rest feels suspicious.

Guilt kicks in.

Identity gets shaky.

And instead of honoring the pause, we label it “laziness.”

In this episode, Denise breaks down why decompression feels wrong, how cultural and family patterns make rest emotionally dangerous, how to handle people who get inconvenienced by your boundaries, and how to recognize when your rest is truly complete.

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