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

Ep 155 - From Passion to Compassion - Antony Nash

·1 hr 11 min·10 clips

My consciousness expanded into pure warmth and love, and I heard: there's only one problem and this is the answer.

Matthew McCabe opens the show with the familiar Miracle Voices frame and welcomes Antony Nash into a gentle, interview-led conversation. Tam Morgan is there too, and she jokes that her body seems to think it has the flu, though she is glad to be doing the show from bed. Antony sounds genuinely grateful to be there, which gives the exchange an attentive, easy start before the talk turns toward heavier ground. The story then moves into a conflict that left him more enraged than he expected. He describes wanting to punch the other person, even imagining going to the door and knocking him out. That reaction feels shocking to him precisely because it is so unlike the version of himself he has usually tried to be. He says he has spent much of his life trying to understand people, be kind, give second chances, and stay forgiving. In that moment, though, he felt like he was done playing the better person. He wanted to be angry without apology. A support call with a mental health charity in Edinburgh becomes part of the turning point. The woman on the line tries first to calm him down and help him self-soothe, because he is clearly highly activated. Antony resists that at first, because what he feels is not just immediate frustration but a lifetime of stored-up hurt. He connects the rage to childhood abuse from his father and to other painful experiences that seem to have been waiting under the surface. The conversation stays with that connection without rushing to flatten it. That matters, because the episode does not treat forgiveness as a slogan. It treats it as something that has to meet actual history, actual humiliation, and actual fury. The language stays close to the ground even as it reaches for Course ideas. He talks in the familiar vocabulary of ego, pain, anger, and the possibility of seeing things differently. The hosts mostly hold the space, keeping the conversation open and gentle rather than steering hard. That light pressure gives Antony room to unfold the story in his own rhythm. The result is a testimony that feels both raw and careful. It moves from the surface event to the deeper wound, and then from the wound to the choice to interpret it another way. By the end, the episode is less about proving a point than about showing how a person slowly notices what is really happening inside him. Antony thanks the hosts, shares his email for anyone who wants to connect, and the episode closes with the standard Miracle Voices outro and his favorite Course quote: when you want only love you will see nothing else.

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A raw forgiveness story that treats rage as the place where healing starts.

This episode starts with rage, then opens into a quieter look at the pain and defenses underneath it. Antony Nash speaks with directness about feeling pushed to the edge, then connects that heat to childhood hurt, mental health support, and the Course ideas that helped him read…

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Play this when anger feels bigger than your usual self-control.

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