The Extraordinary Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not the relaxing of a boundary; if anything, forgiveness builds and strengthens healthy boundaries. Forgiveness is letting go, which is something you need to do for yourself.
Forgiveness is not the relaxing of a boundary; if anything, forgiveness builds and strengthens healthy boundaries. Forgiveness is letting go, which is something you need to do for yourself.
Marina Cantacuzino | Posted 04.25.2012
Working with people who have experienced extreme trauma, I have become convinced that those who have suffered the most have the most to give, if they are only able to reconcile with their past and restore a measure of hope.
David Wilson | Posted 04.09.2012
Life happens. My question is: How can we find true and lasting forgiveness? Can you look past the sometimes rapidly-imposed judgments and attempt to see through our eyes why things happened as they did?
Anne Naylor | Posted 04.08.2012
To open your heart and honestly express your mistakes, fears or doubts seems counterintuitive. And yet, when you do so, you touch and awaken other hearts to do the same.
Wendy Strgar | Posted 04.06.2012
Many of us don't recognize how we hold our future hostage to the pain of our past. We don't understand that healing the past happens in the here and now.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011
QUESTION Dear Irene, My best friend and I had a major falling out 4½ years ago shortly after the death of my two-year-old son. At the time I was so...
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 11.17.2011
Each year during this time, many cultures around the world celebrate an occasion of forgiveness.
Wendy Strgar | Posted 11.17.2011
I think that forgiveness is an act of the imagination. It embraces the child's heart which is always ready to risk for a better moment and give up the hurt of the last one.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011
Despite the romanticized myth of BFF, the hard truth is that most friendships don't last forever. In fact, research suggests that when it comes to fri...
Holly Sidell | Posted 05.25.2011
While you may not like or agree with how you were raised, or may be angry that you aren't accepted for who you are by your parents, remember that they are also people with feelings and their own history.
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
According to the VA, at least 30% of American servicewomen (and many men) have diagnosed cases of Military Sexual Trauma, a form of PTSD. The perpetrators are usually servicemen and commanders.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011
Harboring resentment towards someone has a way of bouncing back like a boomerang to hurt you (including raising your blood pressure). Let go of the disappointment.
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." -- Oscar Wilde Money ...
Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011
Forgiving student loan debt would truly allow the educated lower and middle classes to create a solid foundation for a new economy.
Melissa Van Rossum | Posted 04.30.2012