Broadening Your Experience of Successful Self-Forgiveness to Apply to Other People
If you have a history of offenses against another person—perhaps some big hurts and many small hurts—you do not need to recall every hurt to effectively forgive yourself.
You can forgive the hurtfulness by taking three steps.
- Pick a few of the most hurtful acts that represent all the hurts you have inflicted. Work through those two or three, one at a time, until each is forgiven.
- At some point, you will decide that you have forgiven enough of the individual acts, and you have thus forgiven the person.
- List any barriers to you experiencing emotional self-forgiveness below.