Forgiveness Is Not the Same as Healing with Angela Joseph | Part Two

About this episode

This episode explores the difference between forgiveness and healing through Angela Joseph's personal journey.

What happens when forgiveness and healing are not the same thing? In this powerful and deeply emotional conversation, this episode explores the difference between being forgiven and actually healing, and how unresolved grief, shame, and trauma can live quietly inside us for years. This conversation sheds light on the importance of facing our past, allowing ourselves to grieve, and finding healing through faith, community, and honest conversations. Tune in to this new episode of Amiga, Handle Your Shit , as Jackie sits down with Angela Joseph to talk about her journey through abortion, shame, forgiveness, and ultimately healing. Angela shares how, for years, she believed that asking for forgiveness was enough, but she later realized that forgiveness and healing are not the same thing. Through a healing program at her church, she was forced to confront her past, grieve her losses, and finally begin the process of true healing. Today, Angela leads the same healing groups that once helped her, supporting other women as they face shame, grief, and forgiveness, and helping them find peace and freedom. About Angela Joseph Angela Joseph is a wife, mother, and leader of a post-abortion…

People in this episode

Host: Jacqueline Tapia

Guest: Angela Joseph

Topics covered

• forgiveness
• healing
• grief
• shame
• trauma
• faith
• community

Keywords

• forgiveness
• healing
• grief
• shame
• trauma
• faith
• community
• abortion
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: church

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