“Forgiveness doesn’t mean pretending the wound never happened. It means deciding the person who hurt you no longer gets to write the rest of your story.”
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Aug. 19, 2026

Why

New Episode! "Why"

Close your eyes for a moment. Only do that if you are not driving right now. How do you picture your forever? For Oriana Sparks, forever looked like sitting on a dock, sipping a beer, and growing old beside the man she loved. Then, only weeks after giving birth to their third child, her husband was tragically taken from her.
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The dream disappeared in a moment. The future she had pictured was gone. How do you rebuild after that? How do you forgive the person responsible for taking your forever away? When life leaves you asking why, how do you learn to sit still long enough to hear what your heart truly needs?
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How do you rebuild when your forever disappears? How do you forgive the person responsible? And how do you keep moving forward without leaving the person you lost behind?
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In this week’s episode of Other People’s Shoes, Oriana shares how mindfulness became lifelines through grief. She also introduces the power of the "micro pause": Why am I her…
Guest: Oriana Sparks
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