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Self-Discovery Prompt #37: To Self-Forgive

You don’t have to forgive them. But you do have to forgive the version of yourself that suffered their pain.

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E.B. Johnson
Sep 16, 2021
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Self-Discovery Prompt #37: To Self-Forgive

There’s a lot of talk about forgiveness, but the only real forgiveness that matters is self-forgiveness. You have to forgive yourself for holding on to pain that was never yours to hold on to. More than that, you have to forgive yourself for the shame and the guilt you’ve been holding on to. You couldn’t control…

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