Miracle Voices - A Course In Miracles Podcast (ACIM) · Judy Skutch Whitson, Tam Morgan, and Matthew McCabe

Ep 151 - Forgiving One Layer at a Time - Monique Chabot

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Monique says she hugged the man she identifies as her abuser at a family gathering.

Matthew McCabe and Tam Morgan open the conversation with Monique Chabot in a calm, curious register. She joins from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and begins with the story of how her life shifted after a stay in Costa Rica that was meant to last only two years. That plan did not hold. Monique says spirit had other plans for her, and the change pulled her toward a deeper forgiveness practice. The family story becomes the center of that practice. For years, her sister and brother mostly knew her through small Skype conversations, and the wider family had never been comfortable talking about emotions. When one sister mentioned genealogy, Monique saw a way in. She proposed looking at trauma across generations and felt she needed to speak with uncles and aunts to learn the rest of the family story. The interviews mattered. She says she really enjoyed them, and the process began to open a different kind of honesty inside the family. After a few months, they gathered for 10 days in a chalet and brought together everything they had discovered. Monique describes that gathering as amazing. The episode keeps returning to that turning point. Forgiveness here is not abstract. It is relatives, memory, silence, and the relief of finally naming what had been left unsaid. The conversation also circles back to Costa Rica, where Monique had gone to celebrate 20 years there and then found herself staying much longer. A cousin later encouraged her to follow and discover her own creativity and to keep working with what is alive in her life. She names ACIM and Oponopono as part of what she has put together over the last 20 years. By the end, the thread is clear: forgiveness arrives layer by layer, through family history, patient listening, and a willingness to let love lead. That is the shape of the story Monique tells.

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A patient forgiveness story about family silence, genealogy, and a slower way back.

Monique Chabot's account stays close to family distance and the slow work of coming back together. She talks through genealogy, interviews with uncles and aunts, and a family that went a long time without speaking openly about feelings.

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For a quiet, personal forgiveness story about family estrangement, genealogy, and ACIM practice.

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