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Brenda Reiss - Coach When we’re able to shift our negative feelings enough to start seeing them from a different perspective, we become free to live the life we want.

The Forgiveness Expert
We specialize in empowering high achieving women, who are striving for harmony in their personal relationships, through the transformative power of forgiveness. Forgiveness can bring back your joy and inner peace—allowing you to fall in love with life again… perhaps for the first time! Self-Forgiveness illuminates your true purpose— opening doors to healing your past while replacing regret with gratitude. Self-Forgiveness enables more feelings of freedom, joy and inner peace. As a Self-Forgiveness Coach, I help you create a path to endless possibilities by connecting the dots so you can re-write your story, stepping more fully into your own amazing power! I would love to meet with you for a complimentary 30 minute consultation to see if forgiveness coaching is right for you. I look forward to connecting with you.

10/18/2026

The ways we learn to survive as children can follow us long after the danger has passed. In this deeply personal conversation, I sit down with Rich Dunning, author of “Silence Was My First Language,” to explore how a childhood shaped by abuse, violence, poverty, homelessness, and addiction continued to affect him well into adulthood. Rich shares how silence, overachievement, distrust, and alcohol became ways of coping with pain he had never addressed, and how addiction eventually brought him to a turning point that changed his life.

We talk about sobriety, accountability, rebuilding trust, and what it means to forgive without excusing the harm that was done. Rich also shares how telling his story has helped him release shame, reclaim his voice, and turn his experiences into a source of hope and purpose for others.

🎧 Listen to the Forgive Yourself Podcast: Episode 131 - What Happened to You Doesn’t Have to Define You

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10/05/2026

Feeling lost in the empty nest phase? 🪹

As high-achieving women, we’ve mastered being needed, but when the house gets quiet, it can feel unsettling. It’s okay to grieve both your changing role and the everyday moments you miss. This isn’t just about finding a new purpose or filling every empty space—it's about noticing what you feel, getting curious about who you are when no one needs anything from you, and giving yourself permission to rest, play, and rediscover your own desires.

✉️ Let this season be an invitation to meet yourself again, with compassion and curiosity.

🎧 Forgive Yourself Podcast 130: Who Are You When No One Needs You? The Emotional Side of the Empty Nest

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10/04/2026

If you’re a woman who’s spent years juggling family, career, and the countless needs of everyone around you, you might find that when your children start to leave home, whether it’s their first apartment, college, or a move across the country, a complicated mix of pride, freedom, sadness, and even loneliness comes rushing in. 🌊

In this week's episode of the Forgive Yourself Podcast, I’ll share my own experiences and what I’ve learned talking with other women about this transition. We’ll explore why this time feels so unsettling, how our sense of worth and identity can get tangled up with being needed, and gentle ways to hold space for all the feelings that surface. I’ll offer practical questions and small steps to help you reconnect with yourself, and touch on how our relationships, with our children and ourselves, transform during this new chapter. So if you’re finding yourself in a quieter house and wondering what comes next, let’s unpack it together. 📦

🎧 Forgive Yourself Podcast 130: Who Are You When No One Needs You? The Emotional Side of the Empty Nest

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An empty nest can bring more freedom, more time, and a deep sense of pride in the children you’ve raised. It can also br...
10/03/2026

An empty nest can bring more freedom, more time, and a deep sense of pride in the children you’ve raised. It can also bring grief, loneliness, and questions about who you are now.

In this episode, I talk about why this transition can feel especially complicated for high-achieving women who have spent years caring for others, staying busy, and tying their sense of value to being needed. I share how to make space for difficult emotions without immediately trying to fix them, reconnect with your own wants and needs, and become curious about the woman emerging underneath all the roles you’ve carried.

Rather than rushing to fill the empty space with another goal or accomplishment, I invite you to see this season as an opportunity to listen to yourself, redefine what makes a life meaningful, and discover who you’re becoming now that you have more room to hear yourself.

🎧 Forgive Yourself Podcast Episode 130: Who Are You When No One Needs You? The Emotional Side of the Empty Nest

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09/22/2026

Getting sober, changing a behavior, or understanding your patterns doesn’t always mean you’ve healed from what’s underneath them.

In this episode, I'm joined by Leif Bjelland, longtime recovery advocate and founder of Heroic Breath, to explore the difference between taking responsibility for your past and continuing to punish yourself for it. Leif shares how his own recovery from alcoholism eventually led him beyond sobriety and into meditation, breathwork, and a deeper understanding of self-compassion.

Leif and I discuss the shame and repetitive thought patterns that can keep us stuck, why we often turn to busyness or other forms of escape to avoid what we’re feeling, and how embodied practices can help us move beyond simply understanding our patterns. This episode is an invitation to stop using your past against yourself and begin experiencing compassion, forgiveness, and healing in a new way.

🎧 Forgive Yourself Podcast Episode 128: From Self-Punishment to Self-Compassion

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09/14/2026

After heartbreak, it’s easy to look back and wonder: Why didn’t I see it sooner? Why did I stay? How did I let this happen? But taking responsibility for your past doesn’t have to mean carrying shame for it.

In this episode, I sit down with somatic coach, educator, and writer Christina Elaine to explore the patterns that keep us stuck in self-blame and why healing isn’t about endlessly analyzing or fixing ourselves. Christina shares how our nervous systems can pull us toward familiar relationship dynamics, why insight alone may not be enough to change those patterns, and how new experiences can help us respond differently.

🎧 Forgive Yourself Podcast Episode 127: How to Forgive the Version of You Who Didn’t Know Better

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09/03/2026

Do you ever feel like something's off in a relationship... long before you're ready to admit it?

Our emotions, hopes, fears, and past experiences can make it so hard to see things clearly. 💭

In this episode, I sit down with relationship coach and "Is He Worthy?" author Dave McLachlan ( ) to talk about bringing more clarity and self trust into how we choose and navigate relationships.

Dave opens up about how his own difficult divorce led him to create the Worthy Method, an unemotional relationship assessment built to help women get clear on what truly matters to them, define their non-negotiables, and see more objectively whether a relationship fits the life they want.

We get into:
✨ Why we override our intuition
✨ How emotions cloud what we already know deep down
✨ Why recognizing our own patterns is key to making different choices

🎧 Listen at the link in bio or watch on YouTube!

Forgive Yourself Podcast Episode 125: Trusting Yourself to See Relationships Clearly

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08/22/2026

Ever notice how the right decision rarely feels good at first?

It feels shaky. Uncertain. Sometimes even wrong.

In this episode, I get into why that discomfort isn't a red flag, it's often just part of the process. Between caregiving, health challenges, and recovering from hamstring surgery, I've had to make plenty of decisions that felt anything but peaceful in the moment.

We talk about why busyness can be a way of avoiding the hard stuff, how self judgment convinces us we've gotten it wrong, and why clarity almost never arrives before the decision does. It shows up after, once we've already moved.

🎧 If you're sitting with a choice that feels unsteady right now, listen to: Forgive Yourself Podcast 121 - The Freedom to Trust Your Decisions.

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08/20/2026

The right decision doesn't always feel peaceful.

Sometimes it feels lonely.
Sometimes it feels uncomfortable.
Sometimes it comes with guilt, grief, or the fear of disappointing someone you love.

But discomfort isn't proof you chose wrong.

Emotional freedom isn't about feeling good after every decision. It's about learning to trust yourself and stay with yourself after you've made it.

💬 Over explaining is often just seeking permission in disguise.

Self-trust grows the moment you stop abandoning yourself because someone else reacted.

I get personal in Episode 121 of the Forgive Yourself Podcast, from leaving an unhealthy marriage to making the hardest call of my life: moving my husband into memory care.

Self-forgiveness doesn't erase the past. It turns it into wisdom.

And real freedom? It's choosing yourself without losing your compassion for others.

🎧 Listen to Forgive Yourself Podcast 121: The Freedom to Trust Your Decisions

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