Reasons why you're not willing to forgive someone: Therapist explains
2 years, 5 months ago

Reasons why you're not willing to forgive someone: Therapist explains

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Forgiveness is a difficult process. When we are hurt by someone and we do not know what to do, we often keep that anger and sadness within us and cut that person off from our lives. Even though people say that the greatest thing we can ever do is forgive someone, we take time and a whole lot of effort and convincing for ourselves to do the same. Reasons why you're not willing to forgive someone: Therapist explains Family and marriage therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw recently addressed this difficulty in forgiving someone and wrote a few reasons that may act behind the same. She listed down the reasons in her recent Instagram post: Worry: We often worry that we may make things worse if we bring up old issues again and again.

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‘Toxic Forgiveness’ Is Damaging Your Relationships. Here’s How To Tell If You’re Doing It.
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‘Toxic Forgiveness’ Is Damaging Your Relationships. Here’s How To Tell If You’re Doing It.

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Sarah Mason via Getty Images Toxic forgiveness can result in feelings of resentment and discomfort in a relationship. “My understanding of it is that it’s really describing a pressured or superficial forgiveness,” said Emily West, a licensed mental health counselor at Self Space Therapy in Seattle. People who fall into toxic forgiveness behaviors have a “natural instinct to repair any …

You Can't Truly Forgive Someone Without Doing This First
7 years, 7 months ago

You Can't Truly Forgive Someone Without Doing This First

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It can be so hard to forgive because ― so often ― we simply are in the right and the scale of the folly, thoughtlessness and meanness of others seems utterly beyond our own measure. The hyper-critical individual has lived too much, as their personality was growing, around people who couldn’t take a gentle hint ― so they came to …

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