The Surprising Power of Forgiveness: How I Transformed My Relationships
A few years back, I took note of some serious patterns showing up in my relationships. Not long after I realized how much forgiveness it was going to require to resolve it.
Forgiveness:
How tricky
How unpracticed
“I knew blame and shame very well, but forgiveness was quite foreign.”
As I reflected long and hard on my past relationships, and the ways in which I contributed to the toxicity. I not proudly admitted to myself that I was in fact the walking red flag, too.
It wasn’t particularly a-feel-good-time when I confronted my own toxicity and got honest about my role in relationships.
Perhaps that’s why self-forgiveness is so hard, because it requires radical ownership of your shit, your role. Because you’re forced to drop the blame and shame game.
No more blaming to escape accountability.
No more shaming to cope when there‘s no way out of it.
It sometimes feels easier to turn away from our own reflection in the mirror and hide away in our shame shells, but it’s limiting. I promise you that.
Without forgiveness, cycles repeat and the past is recreated once more.
So to effect any change in our lives, we have to learn to be forgiving, and if we’re going to be forgiving, we have to be honest, and if we’re going to be honest, we have to be loving.
Forgiveness is essential. It is the path to our liberation, our freedom, our evolution.
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