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Five Small Ways to Help You Forgive

 

  Forgiveness is an important part of recovery and healing. Here are five small ways to help you forgive those who have hurt you:* Realize that forgiveness is required in recovery. Holding onto the past is detrimental to your progress. Look forward!* Put your well-being first. The choice to not forgive does not help you move forward. Letting the past control your present is giving it power.* Be open and brutally honest. When you make the choice to forgive those who have hurt you, TELL them how you feel. Let them know EXACTLY how they have hurt you and how it has affected your life. Make them take responsibility for their actions and then forgive. You will feel purged and uplifted!*

 Take responsibility for your actions. Acknowledge that despite those who have hurt you, you are the one who has let it live and fester this long. Make the first move and choose to forgive. When you choose to forgive, you choose yourself.* Forgive on your own terms and your own time: do it when YOU feel ready. If you don't feel certain, don't do it. Only when you feel truly ready can you make that step forward. And when that time comes, it will make all the difference!

  Take care of yourself...Tracy

 

 

  

 

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