
Why forgiveness feels like self-betrayal sometimes
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"If your body resists forgiving, it isn't because you are 'un-spiritual'—it’s because your soul is refusing to participate in self-betrayal."We have been taught that forgiveness is a performance of the "bigger person," a way to minimize the hurt so we can maintain the peace. But true forgiveness is not a weapon to be used against yourself. In this pondering, we explore why forgiveness feels so impossibly hard and why "Forgive and Forget" is often just a form of spiritual bypassing that deepens our own wounding.Moving beyond the pressure to be "over it," we look at forgiveness…
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