107: How to Forgive Yourself for Regrets: Regretting Telling the Truth

In this episode, I dive into regret and how to forgive ourselves when past decisions. I answer a listener question who regrets telling the truth and questions whether it was the right thing to do. I offer guidance on how to process our feelings of regret and how to let go of past burdens.

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  • Introduction: 0:15

  • Life Update: 4:07

  • Listener Question: 16:54

  • Outro: 41:27

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    Amanda Durocher [00:00:01]:

    Welcome to New View Advice. I'm your host, Amanda Durocher, and I invite you to join me here each week as I offer advice on how to move through whatever problem or trauma is holding you back from living life to the fullest. Let's get started. Hi, beautiful soul. My name is Amanda Durocher. And if you're new here, this is New View Advice. This is a healing centered advice podcast where I offer guidance for the healing journey. I don't believe I have all the answers you seek.

    Amanda Durocher [00:00:26]:

    I believe you have all the answers. You just may need a New View and a little help along the way. Thank you for joining me for today's episode. In this episode, we are talking about how to forgive ourselves when we feel regret. I think everyone here can relate to feeling regret over decision or action in their life. All of us have made mistakes in which we could take an action back or handle a conversation differently or change something that has happened in the past. Sometimes we're able to move on quickly. We're able to say, oops, that was a mistake.

    Amanda Durocher [00:00:51]:

    Oops, I woulda handled that differently. But other times, these regrets won't go away, and they can end up feeling like heavy burdens that we live with. In this episode, I am answering a question from a listener who is living with many regrets, and they've felt this way for many months now, and they're having trouble moving on. And one of these regrets includes feeling regret for telling the truth. I think this is a great question because I've actually had a few conversations this week about truth, when to tell the truth, and feeling regret after telling the truth. So we're gonna talk all about that today. My intention for this episode is to assist you in forgiving yourself and letting go of regret, learning how to process the difficult feelings that often go with regret, such as guilt, shame, and more, and to help you to be kinder to yourself as you navigate these regrets. Before we jump into today's listener question, I wanted to mention that if you haven't checked out my website yet, I invite you to check it out after this episode for more free resources for the healing journey, including journal prompts, meditations, and more.

    Amanda Durocher [00:01:47]:

    You can find all things newbie advice at newviewadvice.com/107.

    Amanda Durocher [00:01:56]:

    So with that, let's

    Amanda Durocher [00:01:56]:

    jump on into talking about regret. I went to another state for a work trip this summer and downloaded a dating app there to meet new people. I matched with a guy who I had an instant connection with and we fell in love. We were so obsessed with each other and I practically lived with him for the 2 months I was there. But because I wasn't looking for anything long term, I was meeting other people on the side. We told each other that we would be physically exclusive, but I didn't keep that promise from my end, and I lied to him. At the end of my work trip, we decided that we were going to try long distance, but he had his suspicions of what I was up to during our time together. I felt so guilty for what I had done behind his back and for lying to him that I came clean about everything.

    Amanda Durocher [00:02:39]:

    He told me that I was a horrible person and that he didn't love me anymore and had no desire for a future with me after learning the truth. It's been a few months since then, and I'm still devastated. And I've seen that he's moved on, has new friends, and is living a fulfilling life. I'm happy for him, but I'm shattered knowing I could've been a part of that had I not messed up so horribly. Because this caused such a special bond in my life to break, I'm regretting telling him the truth even though I knew it was the right thing to do. How do I understand that telling the truth was ultimately the right decision? And how do I get past my guilt, shame, self hatred, and the grief of losing someone so special because of my actions? How do I remind myself that I am worthy of love and will have a special connection again? Thank you so much for this question. I think this is a great question that I know so many people can relate to. As I mentioned in the intro, I think everybody can relate to feeling regret throughout their life.

    Amanda Durocher [00:03:28]:

    So I just wanna honor that for you and for anyone else feeling regret right now and feeling burdened by those regrets. And I just wanna take a minute to honor you. I think that to me, it sounds like you're incredibly hard on yourself. You were called a horrible person and then throughout the question you called yourself a horrible person. You are not a horrible person. You made a mistake. We all make mistakes. And mistakes can be especially hard when we hurt someone else.

    Amanda Durocher [00:03:54]:

    And it sounds like you hurt somebody who you had very strong feelings for. And that is not easy, but it does not make you a horrible person. You are not defined by one moment in time, and we'll talk more about that. But you are not defined by that moment. And I think that it says a lot about you that you're looking to grow from this experience, that you're being self reflective about this experience, that you're learning more about yourself from this experience. That's really all we can ask of ourselves when tough things happen is how can we grow from this. So much of life is a perspective shift. You know, we either feel like life is happening to us or we're cocreating with life and we're like, okay.

    Amanda Durocher [00:04:32]:

    I'm here. I'm showing up. Show me how I can grow from this. Show me how I can change. Show me what I can learn. Show me how I can show up better next time. And that's all okay. I think that especially when we're young, we want to just be perfect, and we expect ourselves to act really well.

    Amanda Durocher [00:04:49]:

    And if we don't, then we punish ourselves. And when you get older, you just learn that life is full of mistakes. Nobody's perfect, and you're able to offer yourself more grace. So here, I just want to invite you to offer yourself more grace because you do not deserve to be burdened by this mistake for your entire life. So you've described here feeling some really hard feelings such as guilt, shame, self hatred, and grief. It's a lot of heaviness that you're feeling. Take a moment to honor how hard all those feelings are. Guilt, shame, self hatred, and grief.

    Amanda Durocher [00:05:26]:

    I have felt all those feelings throughout my life and those are really heavy feelings to have. And to have all of those at once bubbling to

    Amanda Durocher [00:05:35]:

    the surface, oof, be kind

    Amanda Durocher [00:05:36]:

    to yourself. Be kind to yourself. Most people who feel those feelings shove them down. They shove them deep into their soul, into their body, and they refuse to look at them. You are here looking to be intentional. So part of being intentional about looking at difficult feelings like that is being kind to yourself and understanding that the work you're doing, the inner work is work and that it takes time but that it's also you're doing something. Right? So many of us who do inner work feel like, oh my god, I'm not doing anything because it's all internal. It's not external.

    Amanda Durocher [00:06:05]:

    At least that's how I've felt throughout my life. And I want you to take a moment to slow down and honor that and make sure you're taking care of yourself throughout this period. Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating well? Are you exercising? Those sound like such basic things, but when we're doing inner work, it's so important to take care of ourselves because it will help you to be kind to yourself and to remember you are not a horrible person when you go back to basics and you take care of yourself. And so I also wanna mention here that in your question you mentioned that he is all happy now and he's living this fulfilling life. One thing that I think is another way to take care of yourself and to help your mental health here because it sounds like your mental health might be impacted because our mental health is always impacted by heavy emotions such as self hatred that leads to a lot

    Amanda Durocher [00:06:50]:

    of negative self talk. And one thing

    Amanda Durocher [00:06:52]:

    that may help you is to set some social media boundaries. I mentioned this in a lot of episodes, but social media is not real life. I had a hell of a past couple years. I talk about it all the time on the podcast. I'm only mentioning that because I could get on social media, and I could make my life look so good. I've traveled all over the world. I've gone to places that people dream about going over the past couple years. I could make it look like my life has been so good.

    Amanda Durocher [00:07:18]:

    It hasn't been. It's been really, really hard. And I say that because social media is not real and people choose and curate their feed to look the way they want it to look, which is totally fine. There's no judgment. We just have to remember when we're looking at it that we're not seeing the full picture of somebody's life. And so he may look happy. He may be happy. He may not be happy.

    Amanda Durocher [00:07:39]:

    But it sounds like the regrets for you are building by seeing these pictures of him and creating stories because that's what it is. When we see somebody's social media feed and we make judgments about their life based on that feed, we're actually writing a story that may or may not be true. When I read that in your question, the mentioning of how his life looks really happy now, I was reminded of that song breaking up was easy in the nineties by Sam Hunt. I don't know if you've heard it. It's a country song. But the song's all about how it must have been easier before we went on these rabbit holes of seeing what people are up to, before social media, before the Internet, before you could just see pictures of how happy somebody looks.

    Amanda Durocher [00:08:19]:

    Must have been easier

    Amanda Durocher [00:08:20]:

    to go through breakups. And I agree with that. I bet it was. And I invite you to set boundaries with yourself. It sounds like you and this person are no longer in contact. So I think it's okay for you to block them, to unfollow them. I know that that can be really hard, but I really think that it's important for us to disengage from those type of triggers that are just gonna make you feel worse as you're healing. Imagine you had a broken bone.

    Amanda Durocher [00:08:46]:

    You wouldn't constantly irritate that bone and hit that bone. You would allow it to heal. You would give it space and time in order to heal. And so I think it's the same way when we're healing from breakups is it's okay to disengage from the person you used to be with. It doesn't mean you have to disengage forever either. Maybe you just need

    Amanda Durocher [00:09:05]:

    a social media break and you

    Amanda Durocher [00:09:06]:

    need to disengage your accounts for a little bit. I rarely go on social media at this point. I found it incredibly unhelpful for my mental health. I was constantly comparing myself to everyone else. And now that I'm not on it, never been happier. So I'm personally a fan of setting boundaries with social media. So I just wanted to mention that up front here because I think having these pictures front of mind and seeing what this person's up to is contributing to your feelings of regret. So now I wanna talk about your question.

    Amanda Durocher [00:09:37]:

    How do you begin to understand that telling the truth was ultimately the right decision? And I think in your case, telling the truth was the right decision because you know that it was for you. You said that in your question. You know that it was the right decision for you, and I think it's telling that you felt guilty before because it meant that your heart and your body were feeling guilty. You would've continued to feel guilty if you had never told the truth. So say you were in that life right now, you were in those photos, you would be living with this regret still. Right? You would regret what you had done and not telling the truth. So to me, it sounds like the situation where damned if you do, damned if you don't, where you were going to feel guilty and likely feel these feelings of regret either way. And I wanted to honor you here because you chose to do a difficult thing.

    Amanda Durocher [00:10:22]:

    You chose to tell the truth, and that is often very difficult in a situation like this. Not everybody would choose to tell the truth. And you knew that your heart was telling you to tell the truth. I want you to honor that. I want you to not punish your heart for asking you to do something difficult. Because oftentimes our hearts do encourage us to do difficult things because that's where we grow. That's where we learn. That's where we become the people we desire to be.

    Amanda Durocher [00:10:49]:

    You know? When I think about who I desire to be, it's not an external thing. I don't desire to be a millionaire or I don't desire to be famous or I don't desire these external things. I desire to be a good person. I desire to go to bed at night and know that I did my best. I desire to feel creative. And for me to feel creative, I have to feel like I'm enough. I have to feel like I'm worthy. I have to love myself.

    Amanda Durocher [00:11:12]:

    My creativity comes from a love of self. And I love myself when I am aligned with who I desire to be, not with the mistakes of my past. Not by making decisions from a wounded fearful place, but making decisions from a loving place. It's taken me a long time to get here and I've gotten here by 1 by 1 making difficult choices, having difficult conversations, and again and again forgiving myself for the mistakes I have made. And I think here, something that happened, that happens a lot of times when we tell the truth, is that you told the truth and then by being honest you were left feeling like the bad guy.

    Amanda Durocher [00:11:49]:

    You felt like you were punished for doing the right thing. And I want

    Amanda Durocher [00:11:53]:

    you to know you're not alone in this. This is something I've talked about with many people, and this is something that's also true for trauma survivors.

    Amanda Durocher [00:12:01]:

    I know there's a lot

    Amanda Durocher [00:12:02]:

    of trauma survivors here who listen to the podcast. And I wanna honor this because I watched a bunch of documentaries this summer about sexual assault and sexual violence and what I was struck by was how many people said, I told the truth and then I was punished. And that is so often what happens when people tell the truth because they're telling somebody what they don't wanna hear or they're disrupting a norm. And in your situation, you told the truth because you knew that in order to build a better relationship with this person, you wanted to have it built on trust. You wanted it to be built on honesty. And you knew that there was a crack in the foundation and in order to repair that crack you had to tell the truth. And then it kind of blows up in your face when he doesn't forgive you. And, unfortunately, that sometimes happens when we choose to

    Amanda Durocher [00:12:55]:

    tell the truth. Sometimes it doesn't go

    Amanda Durocher [00:12:57]:

    the way we want because the other person does not like our truth or they have free will to choose a different way. And, this makes me think of the sentiment that people say the truth will set you free. And the truth is that the truth will not always set you free. It does not always feel that way that the truth will set you free. At least it's not immediate. But I do think the truth sets us free. What that statement really means is that when we feel called to tell our truth, it may lead us down another windy path, but in the end, we will have that self respect and that self love from being truthful and aligned with who we are. But it's not always easy to tell the truth.

    Amanda Durocher [00:13:35]:

    As I mentioned, it's often a difficult choice. So again, I just really ask you to honor yourself here and the decision you made instead of punishing yourself. You are who is punishing you now. You're beating yourself up for it with the replaying in your head of the regrets rather than accepting that this person is no longer in your life. And I don't mean that harshly. I just mean that you made a mistake and you owned up to that mistake, which is honorable. But that does not always go the way we want it to, which is why so many people would choose a different choice. But again, you are aligning with who you want to be.

    Amanda Durocher [00:14:12]:

    And in your next relationship, which spoiler alert, yes, you are worthy of love. Yes, you will find love. And in your next relationship, you will be able to show up in that relationship in a new way and in a more mature way. Because that's really what's happening here is you're growing and you're becoming more mature. You know, your question reminded me of a friendship I had to end this summer. I had to be honest with somebody that the friendship was not serving me, and it came out of left field for them. They were very surprised. They were very hurt.

    Amanda Durocher [00:14:36]:

    And I felt really guilty before I told them. I felt really guilty after. I I thought the truth was gonna set me free and I was gonna feel a burden lifted the minute I told this person I couldn't be friends with them anymore. That was not the case. I felt really bad. I felt like a horrible person. I felt like I did this horrible thing and that I broke this person's heart and it was all my fault. And I had to over and over again remind myself that I ended the friendship even though it was really hard because it was the right thing to do.

    Amanda Durocher [00:15:07]:

    That in order for me to show up each day and love myself, I had to be truthful about this relationship. And, yes, my heart

    Amanda Durocher [00:15:13]:

    asked me to do something hard, and it would've been easier

    Amanda Durocher [00:15:14]:

    to ghost this person or it would've been easier to continue a wishy washy friendship where I wasn't honest with this person. That probably would've been easier. But in the long run, it wouldn't have been easier. It would've been harder and more burdensome on me. And that guilt and those feelings of being in a friendship that wasn't serving me,

    Amanda Durocher [00:15:37]:

    that would've kept building on me.

    Amanda Durocher [00:15:39]:

    I share that because it was a hard situation. I had to move through all the feelings that went with it. But it was the right choice, and how I forgave myself for that situation was seeing the whole situation clearly. So that's what I want to talk about next is how can we forgive ourselves. And oftentimes, self forgiveness comes in layers. I've found that true forgiveness isn't like a switch we can turn on and off. It comes when we are truly ready to let go of the past and the mistakes that we've made. And forgiveness is much easier and it comes easier when we understand why we did what we did and why we feel the way we feel.

    Amanda Durocher [00:16:18]:

    So, I invite you to really become aware of why this situation played out the way it did. Why did you say you would be physically exclusive and then continue being physical with other people? I know you likely feel really bad about this. It sounds like you've had some shame around the situation, but I invite you to be curious with yourself. Be honest with yourself. If you wanna be an honest person, it often starts with being honest with you first. So many of us lie to ourselves about why we do the things we do. We live in denial of how our actions impact others and the consequences because we are often denying a truth within us. And this truth could be a fear of getting hurt.

    Amanda Durocher [00:16:55]:

    It could be a fear of getting hurt first. So maybe you're physical with other people because if he was keeping the door open, so were you. Or maybe you have a fear of vulnerability or maybe you've experienced trauma in the past. But begin to become curious about why this situation played out the way it did. If I'm to bring it back to the friendship example, I found myself in a friendship that really wasn't serving me and I had to ask myself how I ended up there.

    Amanda Durocher [00:17:22]:

    How did I end up

    Amanda Durocher [00:17:22]:

    in this friendship that just wasn't good for me? And the truth was, I met this person when I was really lonely and I wasn't very intentional about going into the friendship and I had to see that. I had to see that there were red flags from the beginning, but because I was feeling lonely at the time, I ignored the red flags. I also saw that this person was very similar to a family member I have. So I had taken on this role in this friendship that I had also been playing in a family structure, And it wasn't until I looked at that role in my family structure of feeling less than to someone that I saw this pattern so clearly in this friendship, and I realized I had to let this friendship go. But throughout this process of breaking up with this friend and ending this friendship, I had to forgive myself over and over again because I had to see that many of the decisions I made were unconscious and I wasn't able to make new decisions until I was conscious. And that's so often what happens in our life. When we make mistakes, often times we are acting from an unconscious place, an unintentional place. We weren't thinking about the consequences of our actions and so we have to forgive ourselves for that.

    Amanda Durocher [00:18:32]:

    And we have to be kind to ourselves like we would be to someone outside of us and say to ourselves, hey, that was a mistake. But it's okay. You didn't know better in that moment. You may have thought you should have, but for x, y, and z you didn't know better. Or maybe, hey, we did know better, but we chose this out of fear. And by becoming curious

    Amanda Durocher [00:18:54]:

    and bringing awareness to the situation, you're going to be able to see it with a bigger perspective, witness it rather than feel like you're really in it. You know, that's what awareness does. It creates a witness perspective where we're able to see ourselves in a new way. Rather than feel consumed by our thoughts, we're able to take a step back and see the situation, like I said, from a bigger perspective. And so I find that that really helps with forgiveness. And so when you're becoming curious with yourself about why this situation played out the way it did, why you were lying, why you were physical with someone else, the things you feel regret about, I invite you to become curious with yourself if you have played out these patterns before. For example, in my life, as a trauma survivor, one of my coping strategies is escapism. So what that means is is I find ways to escape my life, to run from my life, to flight from my life.

    Amanda Durocher [00:19:45]:

    It's a fight or flight response. And I mention this here because so many times when this escapism comes up, I have to become aware. I have not always been aware of this. Okay? I still struggle with becoming aware of my escapism tendencies. So, for example, this summer, I talked about in last week's episode, I was feeling very trapped in my life, and it was a trauma response showing me a few things I had to look at. But throughout that whole process, I wanted to get in my car and run away. I wanted to move to Mount Shasta, give up all my responsibilities over and over again. I honestly almost did.

    Amanda Durocher [00:20:20]:

    I had to be talked off a ledge by my therapist multiple times. And it's funny because I had this urge to self sabotage my life over and over again. My life here in Scottsdale, that's where I live, is really good. I have a yoga studio I love. I have a home I love. I have a loving partner. I have friendships. I'm on the board of a nonprofit for sexual assault survivors.

    Amanda Durocher [00:20:41]:

    I'm just gonna drop here. If you're in the Scottsdale Phoenix area, check us out. Surviversrise.com. We host a lot of events here. Moving on. But I share this because I wanted to run for my life and I had to be so conscious not to. And I have had to forgive myself for that. And that when things get really good, my instinct is to get up and run.

    Amanda Durocher [00:21:02]:

    There have been times that I have had to forgive myself for that tendency. You know, when I was in my twenties, I used to do that in relation and in friendships. If friendships got hard, I just ran. I just ghosted them. I just didn't speak to these people anymore. I share this here because there are times where I could just judge myself and be like, oh my god. I can't believe you abandoned that person. I can't believe you just stopped talking to that person.

    Amanda Durocher [00:21:20]:

    You're a horrible person, Amanda. Or I can say, dang. Why did I do that? Why did that friendship end that way? I've had

    Amanda Durocher [00:21:28]:

    to forgive myself time and time again for many mistakes I have made, but it is through forgiving myself and looking at my mistakes that I grow and learn. I forgive myself for those moments where I fall short of who I quote unquote think I should be. Because this brings me back to you're not a horrible person and you may have been called a horrible person, but nobody but you gets to define you And, no one moment in time defines you. And, he may always view you as a horrible person. That's a hard truth about life. I look back at life and there were moments when I drank too much where I'm like, those people are always gonna hate me or they're always gonna think I'm a

    Amanda Durocher [00:22:05]:

    hot mess. That's not true. That's not true for me, but they may always think that about me. And, I can either torture myself

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    by thinking, oh my god, what do these people think about me?

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    Or, I can focus on what do I think about me? Who am I every day? What actions do

    Amanda Durocher [00:22:20]:

    I take to show myself daily that I am not a horrible person? And oftentimes this feeling of being horrible can also go back to childhood, feeling like we weren't enough to our parents or in school or with friends at that age. So I invite you to get curious with yourself and really look at if the feelings you're having now stem back farther. The last thing I wanna share is that the most important thing, as always, is please be kind and compassionate with yourself. You do not deserve to hold onto this forever. As I've said so many times throughout this episode we all make mistakes and you do not deserve to berate yourself or punish yourself.

    Amanda Durocher [00:22:55]:

    Let yourself off the hook for this one. Be kind to yourself. You have

    Amanda Durocher [00:22:59]:

    to allow yourself to feel all your feelings, to be honest with yourself, and if you choose you can learn from this, but you also have to allow yourself to let this go. You do not deserve to carry this burden forever. You are a beautiful soul. You wouldn't be here if you weren't. It makes me sad that the self reflective people and the empathic people in the world are often the people who beat themselves up the most. There are so many people who don't choose to learn from things. They just

    Amanda Durocher [00:23:27]:

    keep playing out the same patterns or they keep hurting people and they don't care about the consequences. You do. That says a lot about you. It says a lot about your heart. It says a lot about the person you're going to grow and to be. That's what life is. It's about growing. We never stop.

    Amanda Durocher [00:23:45]:

    Isn't that so cool? We can learn and change and grow throughout our entire life. That's exciting.

    Amanda Durocher [00:23:50]:

    We put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect right now, forever. Ah. Oh my gosh. What pressure? To live our whole existence perfect? Oh my gosh. I can't even handle that pressure. I won't be tensed even saying that. I am so imperfect. And that's what makes life interesting.

    Amanda Durocher [00:24:10]:

    So really be kind to yourself. Offer yourself grace. Offer yourself compassion. When healing from regrets and forgiving ourselves, we want to balance that self awareness, being curious, feeling those feelings with kindness and kind words to ourselves, encouraging ourselves we're not horrible people, telling ourselves who we do

    Amanda Durocher [00:24:27]:

    want to be, reminding ourselves that

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    what we see on the internet isn't necessarily true, and my mantra that I held onto all summer is that I will not always feel this way.

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    So when you find those hard feelings come up, just remind yourself, I will not always feel this way. I will not always be here. This too shall pass. And, before I wrap up this question, I just want to remind

    Amanda Durocher [00:24:49]:

    you that you are worthy of love. Everyone is worthy of love. And you will 100% have another special connection.

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    I have no doubt. So if that helps you, know that Amanda has no doubt for you. And the

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    next time you enter a relationship, you won't be carrying around this guilt. You'll be more self confident, self assured. You'll know your own strength because you'll see a challenge you overcame. You know, that's another thing about mistakes is that we build strength. We build self respect. We build self esteem because we see ourselves overcome challenges. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's actually beautiful.

    Amanda Durocher [00:25:22]:

    So I invite you to remind yourself every day that you're worthy of love.

    Amanda Durocher [00:25:25]:

    And I'm gonna let you in

    Amanda Durocher [00:25:26]:

    on a secret. Many people, even in relationships, don't feel worthy of love. So just because you are single right now, it doesn't mean anything about you. I'm 32, and I cried all summer because I realized I'd been keeping Evan's love out. And I realized I felt unworthy in so many ways. And I let his love in more and more, and I continue to do that. And I've continued to do that for 13 years. I didn't get in a relationship and just feel worthy of love.

    Amanda Durocher [00:25:53]:

    Through the relationship, I've had to open myself up to more and more love. And I mention that here because feeling love and that worthiness of love has been an inside job for me. I can really only let in as much love as I love myself. And I am humbled by that time and time again. And I want to remind you that because if you're in a relationship or you're not in a relationship, it's an inside job. The more you love you, the more you will feel that love in your life in all relationships and all aspects. And all this is done one step at

    Amanda Durocher [00:26:23]:

    a time. And so I know you're worthy of

    Amanda Durocher [00:26:25]:

    all your heart's desires. You will find your person. You will find your people. And you will find the love of your life. And I am sending you so much love today. Thank you so much for this question. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of New View Advice. As always, I am so grateful to here with you and to offer you a new view on healing, and this week it was talking about regret.

    Amanda Durocher [00:26:50]:

    So everybody out there, be kind to yourself. And if you enjoyed this episode, I invite you to leave a 5 star review and subscribe to the podcast. Reviews and star ratings and subscribers really help to grow the podcast. So I am forever grateful for all your support and for everyone who continues to come back each week and listen. So thanks again for joining me for another episode of NuVu Advice. As always, I hope I was able to offer you a new view on whatever you may be going through. Sending you all my love. See you next time.


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