Forgiveness is often confused with reconciliation. A counselling professor explains why letting go is an internal process and why making up is not always healthy or necessary ...

Psychotherapy often explores family dynamics, unresolved trauma, developmental issues, and the unconscious conflicts that interfere with a client’s ability to optimally cope. Psychotherapy is ...

Two prominent forms of Forgiveness Therapy (Enright, 2001, Worthington, 2006) share this in common: the importance of empathy toward those who act unjustly. Empathy is the ability to “step inside the ...

Why grace isn’t owed to people who refuse accountability.

We all use the word forgiveness. Yet, what if I told you that a research study found that a majority of people who were asked what forgiveness is actually misunderstood it? When Plato began his ...

An alternative to self-blame is self-forgiveness. When we forgive ourselves for past mistakes and misdeeds, we let go of regret—that is, of self-shaming, the opposite of self-forgiving. We hold our ...