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How to forgive yourself for hurting someone?

Profile: Tiffany88
Tiffany88 on Aug 5, 2016
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Acknowledge it. Don't pretend it didn't happen. Apologize if you can. Accept repercussions. Don't make the same mistake again and that will be honorable enough.
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Profile: allyswift
allyswift on Aug 6, 2016
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You probably should find the reasons why that happened. Maybe it was not completely ur fault.......
Profile: frenchiek
frenchiek on Aug 10, 2016
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Forgivness is something you have to work on. To forgive yourself is hard. You have to accept what you've done and realize it was an accident and not something you did on purpose.
Profile: Sweetheart280
Sweetheart280 on Aug 10, 2016
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You just have to realise what you did to that person and say to yourself that you are forgiven because it will eat you inside
Profile: WanderingPoet
WanderingPoet on Aug 11, 2016
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The easiest way I've learned to forgive someone who hurt me is to forgive them for my sake. Me not forgiving them is only hurting myself in the long run.
Profile: hopefulRainbows30
hopefulRainbows30 on Aug 13, 2016
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I think it is never easy to forgive ourselves for hurting someone. But maybe, we can start by acknowledging the guilt that we feel. We have already placed a "criminal sentence" on ourselves for hurting someone and we know that what we did is wrong. There is no acceptable excuse for what we have done. So we feel guilty and we want to give a sort of justice to the person we hurt but we also have to be fair with ourselves. We have already acknowledged our mistake and we have already asked for forgiveness to that someone. We tried to make up for the mistake. There is no further need to look down on ourselves and treat ourselves like forever monsters. It's unfair to ourselves to judge and define prematurely who we are and who we will be by a mistake (yes, this mistake is part of our life, but it's not the whole of our lives). We're not giving chance on ourselves to be a better person if we don't believe we can be.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Aug 14, 2016
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Not grieving over the situation. Kindly and meaningful apologies help at times. Also, check in to see if they are okay, if they do not want to be bothered do not bother them. Reassure yourself that it will be okay.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Aug 17, 2016
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first is that you need to learn "acceptance" it is part of our life that we hurt people whether it's intentionally or unintentionally. because not all the times we know what they are thinking or feeling, maybe the best way to forgive yourself is by apologizing to the people you hurt and it's up to them if they will forgive you or not at least you did your part to say sorry for hurting them. I hope that this helps you :)
Profile: kindWind7771
kindWind7771 on Aug 17, 2016
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Ask them to forgive you and try not to do it again. Also, remember that nobody is perfect and that everyone makes mistakes.
Profile: JessicaMae
JessicaMae on Aug 18, 2016
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Ask for forgiveness. That is all that you can do, and behave appropriately from then on. But to forgive yourself... You have to prove not only to that person that you are sorry, but to yourself too. And you can only achieve that by being a better person.
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