Forgiveness: forgiving others & ourselves
But I think when we hold people so close to our hearts and we're around them so often because we live with them or whatever the case may be, we see them often. It's just a fact of life that we're going to accidentally hurt one another's feelings. But what I have yet to master, and I don't know if I ever will be able to master
Ah, yes. What you describe has been very familiar to me. I don't have it all figured out now, but I will say that it's been a process. And where I'm at now with it is that when I'm feeling that overwhelming guilt and shame for having hurt someone I care about, you know, I suppose I allow myself some time, some room to feel those things because I did screw up, and I don't want to do that again
And usually it's attributed to something else? And then I say, okay, so why is this coming up right now? Why is this buzzing around my head right now? And then we go from there, I think finding the source of why you're not forgiving yourself and getting in the habit of that starting to understand why you're resistant to forgiving yourself make it a lot easier in the long run. And I think provides us with skills that will make it easier for us to forgive ourselves later