Healing From Your Break-Up – Lesson 2.2 – What Forgiveness Is

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It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.
(Jane Stanton Hitchcock)

Welcome to Lesson #5 of the Healing From Your Break-Up course!

Now that you know that forgiveness isn’t about spending time with toxic people or giving away your power, it’s time to look at what forgiveness is.

Very simply, forgiveness is FREEDOM:

  • Freedom from having what happened always on your mind.
  • Freedom the anger and fear.
  • Freedom from having to grit your teeth when you see them.

As difficult as forgiveness can be, it lightens the load on your mind, brings peace to your heart, and frees you to move forward to the future.

Refusing Forgiveness Affects All Areas Of Your Life

Holding onto pain and resentment has major negative effects on you. You’ll find you’re easily distracted by the pain, and this limits your ability to be fully productive. You also miss the joys of life.

When you relive what happened, your body reacts as if you just experienced the pain. You feel like a victim and have difficulty accessing your inner strength.

Holding onto emotional pain weakens you. You are like the powerful elephant prevented from moving because it believes the little chain around its ankle controls its life.

Let’s examine more deeply what forgiveness gives you:

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