Tag: forgiveness
Things I Selfishly Wish My Daughter Taught Me Sooner
One great thing about having kids is having someone I love who loves me back, depends on me, and turns to me for advice. Lately, I’ve noticed that my daughter is growing up so fast.
Gentle Curiosity and the Art of Forgiveness
Exploring meditation over recent years has led me to a lot of new understanding: about dedication, about the anatomy of habit; about myself; and about forgiveness. I have recently listened to two meditations:
Calm Your Heart Through Forgiveness
For me, forgiveness is about wanting to increase my inner peace around a hurtful situation. Ultimately it’s up to me to rectify from within in order to allow healing to occur from the harm. I am aware that I …
Forgiveness Makes Room for Love
It is a wintery, quiet day as I sit here thinking about the concept of forgiveness. Questions fall like little snowflakes and yet there are few answers. In my head the concept of forgiveness is almost akin to…
When We Must Seek Forgiveness From Within
I am lucky. If we must seek forgiveness in all we do, then I am very lucky; there are so few people in my life I have had a need to forgive. Those were mostly for small betrayals, moments or words that bruised…
Live a Life of No Regrets
The person I’ve had to forgive the most has been myself. For all the mistakes I’ve made and for my own role in the trauma I have experienced. It’s not a matter of blame or accepting a victim role…
How Forgiveness Brought Me Back to Life
Although I always take motivational phrases with a grain of salt, I have to admit the old adages about forgiveness are true pearls of wisdom. Forgiveness is the best foundation for a happy life because it…
How to Forgive and Choose to Love
Do you find it easy to forgive people who have hurt or abused you in some way? I didn’t until I started to understand that I was hurting myself more by maintaining a tight knot of resentment and anger […]
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5 Steps to Forgiveness
We have all been hurt by someone’s words or actions at some point in our lives. We all create thoughts and actions that actually hurt ourselves and others too. When we judge what happens to us, when we […]
How Art Led Me to the Road of Self
Looking back, I realised I was always too harsh to myself. Self-criticism was like second nature to me back then, and I am especially hard when I fail at something I have set out to do. For as long as I […]
The Role of Forgiveness in Transforming Childhood Trauma
“Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die,” my client recalled solemnly, attributing her words to the Dhali Lama. My 23-year-old client, Anna, was seeing me for […]
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Touching Forgiveness: A Day of Mindfulness with My Dad
Located near the Catskills, there lies a special place that opens its doors to visitors who would like to come and participate in something called “a day of mindfulness.” It is as simple as it sounds […]
