In this deeply personal and spiritually grounded solo episode of It’s Time, Jillian Melissa explores one of the most misunderstood—and most avoided—spiritual practices: forgiveness.

This episode is not about bypassing pain, forcing reconciliation, or pretending you’re “over it.” Instead, Jillian walks listeners through a raw, embodied inquiry into what forgiveness actually is, what it is not, and why unforgiveness quietly hardens the heart and keeps us tethered to the past.

Drawing from lived experience, Christian theology, somatic wisdom, and teachings from Brad Hambrick’s work on forgiveness, Jillian reframes forgiveness as an internal act of light, not a relational obligation.

If you’ve ever withheld forgiveness to protect yourself…
If you’ve confused forgiveness with trust, reconciliation, or forgetting…
If you’ve felt stuck between boundaries and bitterness…

This episode is an invitation to choose light without abandoning yourself.

✨ What This Episode Covers
Why forgiveness is not pretending you’re unhurt
Why forgiving someone does not mean letting them off the hook
The difference between forgiveness and excusing behavior
How withholding forgiveness calcifies the heart
Why forgiveness is an internal process, not a relational contract
Forgiveness as a commitment to what you do with pain when it resurfaces
The spiritual cost of bitterness and resentment
Why boundaries and forgiveness can coexist
Forgiveness as “turning on the light” inside the wound
The link between forgiveness, embodiment, and alignment with God
Why self-forgiveness is often the hardest place to begin

🔍 Core Teaching: Five Things Forgiveness Is Not
Forgiveness is not pretending you’re not hurt
Forgiveness does not require silencing yourself or denying pain.

Forgiveness is not letting someone off the hook
It does not erase accountability or minimize harm.

Forgiveness is not making excuses for someone
Understanding someone’s wounds does not justify their behavior.

Forgiveness is not forgetting
Memory and discernment remain intact.

Forgiveness is not trust or reconciliation
You can forgive without restoring access or relationship.

🌿 A Note on Embodiment
Throughout the episode, Jillian emphasizes the importance of listening to the body—especially within spiritual communities that mistakenly equate holiness with neglect of physical needs.

The body is not an obstacle to God.
The body is a source of intelligence, discernment, and truth.

🔗 Connect with Jillian Melissa
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jillianmelissaintuition

🤍 Closing Invitation
If this episode stirred something in you—resistance, emotion, relief, or recognition—sit with it. Forgiveness is not rushed. It is practiced.

And if you’re not ready yet, that’s okay.
Awareness is the beginning.

In this heartfelt conversation, Jillian Melissa is joined by one of her favorite humans and most influential mentors, Diane Young-Sussman—a transformational life coach, hands-on healer, author, and Alexander Technique teacher with decades of experience guiding others back into their authentic selves.

Diane was a profound early influence in Jillian’s journey into meditation and energetic healing. Their reunion in this episode is filled with wisdom and vulnerability as they explore themes of healing, intuition, and spiritual courage.

Diane shares about her recent near-death health crisis that deepened her understanding of embodiment. She also discusses how to access your authentic self through movement, journaling, and soul embodiment practices. Amidst this narrative, Jillian reflects on her own journey of healing and reconnection. Together, they touch upon the role of prayer, angels, community, and future self connection in supporting transformation.

If you’ve ever wondered what it truly means to live in your body as a spiritual being, to overcome separation and return to integration, or to invite divine presence into everyday life—this episode will inspire you deeply.

Highlights from this episode:

• How Diane first introduced Jillian to healing and intuition
• The wisdom of the body as higher than the soul
• Navigating serious illness, surgery, and soul-body integration
• Alexander Technique as a tool for release, freedom, and presence
• The power of prayer, angels, and community in healing
• Connecting with your future self and divine feminine energy

Connect with Diane Young-Sussman

• Website: doorwaystotheself.com
• Facebook: facebook.com/dianesussmancoaching

Connect with Jillian Melissa

• Patreon: patreon.com/jillianmelissaintuition
• Email: info@jillianmelissaintuition.com

00:30 – Meet Diane Yang Sussman
02:20 – Early Mentorship & Healing
04:30 – Energy Healing vs. Ego
05:40 – Doorways to the Self Workshops
07:15 – Discovering the Mythic Self
09:30 – Meditation, Kabbalah & Embodiment
11:00 – Body as Sacred Vessel
14:00 – Everyday Anxiety & Nervous System Tools
18:15 – Honoring the Human Body
19:10 – Healing Journey & Surgery Story
21:00 – Energy Healing & Regeneration
24:10 – Healing Family Lineage
25:10 – Soul Separation Experience
28:20 – Recovery & Integration
30:40 – Illness vs. Healing Integration
32:00 – God, Breath & Presence
35:00 – Pandemic as Collective Healing
38:15 – Angels, Light & Prayer
42:00 – Future Self Connection
44:00 – Divine Feminine Wisdom
46:20 – Depression & Loneliness
48:20 – Spark of Light & Hope
49:30 – Body-Based Practices
51:20 – Alexander Technique Explained
52:10 – Jillian’s First Alexander Experience
53:40 – Musicians & Somatic Work
53:59 – How to Connect with Diane
55:10 – Diane’s Closing Blessing
57:02 – Closing Gratitude

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In this intimate solo episode of It’s Time, Jillian Melissa invites listeners into a real-time reclamation of intention. From her ten-year sobriety anniversary to navigating heartbreak, intuitive work, and even a recent dog attack, Jillian weaves a powerful story about why intention still matters—and how to engage it without falling into the traps of bypassing or manipulation.

She shares candidly about leaving social media, recovering from addiction and codependency, and finding her way back to the seed of every dream — intention. Drawing on Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein, Abraham Hicks, and her own lived experience, Jillian explores how to hold intentions lightly yet firmly—partnering with discipline, mood management, and divine timing.

You’ll learn how unconscious intentions magnetize experiences, why discipline is the missing ingredient that transforms desire into reality, and how to tolerate “the lag time” between wanting something and watching it manifest. Jillian also offers guidance for twin flames and anyone on a spiritual path about the high cost of disobedience and the necessity of grounded practice.

This is not just an episode about intention—it’s about co-creating with Source, reclaiming your power, and embodying joy even in the gap between what is and what will be.

Where to Find Jillian

• Patreon: patreon.com/JillianMelissaIntuition
• Email: info@jillianmelissaintuition.com

If this episode stirs something in you, share it with a friend who is ready to reclaim their own intentions. Subscribe to It’s Time wherever you listen and join Jillian’s Patreon community for deeper teachings, behind-the-scenes posts, and extended messages on twin flames, intuitive living, and divine timing.

Chapters

00:00 – Opening Invocation: “It’s Time” Poem
00:28 – Leaving Instagram & Life After Social Media
01:03 – Ten Years in Recovery: The Fentanyl Story
02:10 – Celebrating Sobriety & Divine Strength
03:17 – Why Intentions “Don’t Matter” (Old Belief)
04:29 – Unconscious Intentions & Relationship Patterns
05:02 – The Seed of Every Dream: Reclaiming Intention
06:02 – Power of Intention & Influences (Dyer, Chopra, Bernstein)
07:37 – Swinging the Pendulum: Cynicism & Wounding
08:22 – Collaborating with the Co-Creative Source
09:15 – Twin Flame Journey & High Cost of Disobedience
11:11 – Intuitive Guidance & Digital Detox Lessons
13:02 – God’s Celebratory Surprises (Hamilton Story)
18:11 – Hardest Part Isn’t Channeling—It’s Implementation
19:05 – Using Intention to Heal the Brain & Get Off Fentanyl
24:18 – Tolerating Unfulfilled Desires Without Losing Faith
26:55 – Avoiding Spiritual Materialism & Witchcraft Traps
28:12 – Intentional Vibration: Showing Up Joyfully
33:13 – Mood Management as Spiritual Discipline
35:09 – Choosing Joy Amid Chaos
37:42 – Feeling vs. Denying Negative Emotions
38:11 – “Your Feelings Are No Longer Up for Grabs”
40:20 – Divine Confirmation & Engaged Energy
45:02 – Daily Energetic Hygiene & Cord Cutting
48:21 – Discipline: The Bridge Between Intention & Reality
53:47 – Discipline in Spiritual Entrepreneurship
57:19 – Boundaries, Ballerinas & The Illusion of Ease
59:06 – Doing What You Don’t Want to Become Who You Want
1:01:21 – Why Grounded Training Matters for Healers
1:03:06 – Gigi Young’s Three Pillars of Psychic Service
1:07:47 – Shadow Sides of Intention
1:09:53 – Clean Comedy, Clean Intentions
1:10:58 – Intention With Light Leading the Way
1:11:35 – Closing Invitation: Listen to Your Body, Reclaim Intention