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...
by Kate | Dec 17, 2019 | Forgiveness, kind promises
Forgiveness is good for you. Psychologists define it 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 deserve your forgiveness. Forgiveness makes us happier and...
by Kate | Dec 17, 2019 | Forgiveness, kind promises
As the year draws to a close, we may become conscious of the things we meant to do but didn’t. Then there are the things we didn’t do, but wanted to do. Let’s not forget the things we did that went badly. Self-forgiveness is one way to shake off the dust of the old...
