by Kate | Dec 19, 2023 | Forgiveness
When you mess up, you may find your mind reviewing it over and over. It’s not helpful to relive mistakes and disappointments, yet we get trapped there sometimes. The key to our jail cell is self-forgiveness. Mary Hayes Grieco is the author of “Unconditional...
by Kate | Dec 5, 2023 | Forgiveness
This is my crazy, kind promise to myself this month and forever. By “forgive” I mean to let go of the idea that things should be different than they are. Buddhist teachers talk about the “three poisons.” They are attraction, repulsion, and ignorance. I want this...
by Kate | Jan 18, 2023 | Chronic healing, Forgiveness
Earlier this month, I took a look around the blogosphere for posts about forgiveness. Rev. Deb Koster used a phrase that got me thinking. “Forgiveness,” she wrote, “is letting go of being defined as a victim.” The overarching theme of her post...
by Kate | Jan 11, 2023 | Forgiveness
A funny thing happened when I set out to paint forgiveness. I remembered the day the malamute dog chewed a hole in my rug. It wasn’t just any rug. The summer before the chewing incident, I spent six weeks in Mexico. For some of those weeks, I worked with a...
by Kate | Jan 4, 2023 | Forgiveness, kind promises
“Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.” (Greater Good)...
by Kate | Dec 22, 2020 | Forgiveness, kind promises
This month I’ve been writing about how to respond to uncomfortable emotions. These last nine months has been filled with them and, as the pandemic continues, we get more invitations to improve our emotional intelligence. I was reminded this week of a Buddhist mind...
