The more I practice forgiveness the more my healing expands. I have witnessed growth in the midst of darkness, healing where I was unaware of need and change in places that I believed had reached their ceiling. Through these and other practices…
H’opono’pono is a 4-line Hawaiian prayer that uses the forces of repentance, forgiveness, gratitude and love to bring forth healing and change. While the order of which may not matter, the process I use states in order: I Love You, I’m Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You. I have two primary….
Mantra: Forgiveness is a process and a practice. Though it sounds a bit cliche. What I’ve found is that oftentimes the very things that I’ve thought I’d forgiven find their way back to me. Old wounds and outdated feelings. Unresolved pain. The shards and shrapnel from hard…
I’m thankful I’ve lived long enough to know the beauty of forgiveness. I remember the first time I wrote down a forgiveness list. It was December 27, 2016. I had decided to do a 5 Days of Forgiveness Challenge...
One of the biggest things I’ve ever had to forgive was the perceived betrayal and abandonment of a former lover. We had been together for years, simultaneously wounding, vicariously living in and off of each other’s misery. Him unable to forgive me. ..
As I sat there, I realized that I had never really called my first real relationship abusive. I mean it was abusive and I knew this but to actually say out loud, verbally, with my mouth, my voice, my words that “I was in an abusive relationship when I was 14” was new…