What we get wrong about forgiveness – a counseling professor unpacks the difference between letting go and making up ...

Years ago at a forgiveness class for Stanford Continuing Studies, one of us met a man who once had a wife and two children and a good job. But he threw it all away because of a gambling addiction that ...

Forgiveness remains one of humanity’s most challenging yet transformative practices. When hurt runs deep and betrayal feels fresh, the path toward healing can seem impossible to navigate. Yet ...

When you have become emotionally close to another person, you have become more vulnerable. Vulnerability opens the doors for a person to do things that hurt, which often comes out when conflicts arise ...

Poet Alexander Pope wrote, "To err is human, to forgive divine." Few things feel more heavenly then when someone really “gets” how they’ve hurt you. It’s easy to forgive them when they honestly ...

“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” - Mark Twain Forgiveness is no easy feat. The truth is, with forgiveness, you may not always get what you want. You may ...

When you learn other languages, you come to a better understanding of your own. It opens your eyes and mind allowing you to see things from a different perspective. When I learned that the Italian ...

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by ...

We’ve all been there—in the course of your life, someone did something awful that hurt you for which you harbor resentment. If you google "forgiveness," there are many articles about the merits of ...