How to forgive yourself for cheating or lying?

Understand that what you did was wrong and regretful. However, let yourself grow from there and learn from your mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes so don't feel alone. You know yourself best so you have to make the right choices, no one else can do it for you. Make sure you don't do it again because of all the negative things that it brings.

First acknowledging that you're sorry is a big step towards trying to forgive yourself. After accepting this, try and see reasons why such should not repeat itself. You can write it down and follow the step by step process. From my personal experience, though it wasn't easy, i first felt really sad about it and tried talking to the person. I checked on her daily just to make sure she held no grudge and i started practicing self love. Self love helped. If one really love themselves, hurting others would not be an option. So self love and acknowledgement really helped me a lot.

Understand that mistakes do happen, humans do make progress in life. Forgiving yourself is one of the most important things that you can do for yourself if you do not forgive yourself how are you going to be able to move on and learn from the fact you cheated or lied? Being honest with myself and figuring out what the true reason was for me lying and figure out if it was a valid reason and forgiving myself in order to forget in this situation. Thinking that what happen has happen and it is in the past and we need to move on from this to improve as an individual.

Cheating and lying are choices. Often in life we regret or even cringe at our choices. We've all been there. At one point in your life you felt like it was okay so you did it and now you regret, this shows that you are willing to change and that you regret it. It's a great start, mistakes are mistakes and everybody does that what would be unforgivable is that if you never ever regret it. But now it's different are not the same person anymore. You have learned from your mistakes so don't be hard on yourself. Self acceptance is key here. Accept that you were once wrong and that you'll never do it again. You could try apologizing to the people it could help and hey if they aren't ready to accept it don't worry. You are doing what you have to do and only that matters. Take care :)

Every day I make a promise to myself that I will do better. I will be a better person, I will learn from my mistakes, and I will not repeat them. These promises help me move forward in life and forgive my past self for mistakes that have been made. Some days are tough, and I feel guilty for things I have done, but I remind myself that I am a human who is allowed to make mistakes. As long as I grow from those mistakes and keep my self promises, I can move on and be a better person than I was before.

Start to love yourself to make it easier. It'll hurt for a while but better off figuring where you went wrong and love yourself. The other person in time will forgive you in time! If they don't you wasted time on them and are better off without them in your life. Sometimes we make a mistake and realized too late to do anything about it. It'll always work out for everyone. Some people think it'll never work and they have made the worst mistake but you may of done it out of revenge towards that person, or you made a mistake

It may be important, ultimately, to accept what we had done, and not judge the totality of who we are for what we did. This is not to say that what we did was fine. This is to say that we are human and we do things that may not always be to our benefit, and that dwelling on this matter will not help us. It is important to learn the distinction between guilt and remorse - remorse is understanding what you did wrong, and trying to address it without an unreasonably long grieving time. Guilt has a prolonged negative feeling, and indicting ourselves for an unreasonably long time for whatever it is that we did.

One can not forgive themselves until they completely understand that they have changed since the time they committed the act. One can not be truly remorseful without putting in effort to change. If one has changed, and improved since the incident, than retrospection is key. Realize why what you did is wrong, not just to you but to others. Realize that you are asking this question because you regret your mistake. Regret means that you are not proud of doing what you did. This means that you did simply that: you made a mistake. This isn't a reflection of who you are now, it is simply a reflection of who you used to be and how you were thinking at the time. At that specific time, you made a mistake. Look inside yourself now. Would you do the same again? Considering you regret your decision, the answer is probably no. If so, then you are capable of forgiving yourself. You acknowledge what you did, you accept what you did is wrong. You improved yourself to prevent it from happening again and you have taken steps to be a better person. These are all accomplishments to be proud of, and as you make these, you will slowly learn to forgive yourself for what you regret.

If you can still fix the damage that has been done by your actions, try your best to do so, even if a lot of time has passed already. If you can't make it up for that specific person that was hurt or harmed by your action, try to do good things to other people to make the world a better place and thus benefit the person you've hurt indirectly. If even that is not possible, the only thing you can do is learn from this mistake, become a better person and understand why you have done what you've done, how not to do it again and remind yourself in the future about the consequences of your actions.

By knowing that you are human and that's part of making mistakes, and that I as a human I can't always do everything right or control everything. I accept that I can only do so much and that there are reasons behind the miatakes, more so than just being "evil", and I accept those reasons and find comfort that we all can do good and bad things given the circumstances and conditions allow them to happen. Having said that, I cope by accepting all of that and that I am more than what I do, knowing I can't always control what happens to me or around me which affects my actions