When To Forgive

Author : Robert Enright
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780393734065

Get Book

8 Keys to Forgiveness (8 Keys to Mental Health) by Robert Enright Pdf

'A practical guide by the man Time magazine has called “the forgiveness trailblazer.” While it may seem like a simple enough act, forgiveness is a difficult, delicate process which, if executed correctly, can be profoundly moving and a deep learning experience. Whatever the scenario may be—whether you need to make peace with a certain situation, with a loved one or friend, or with a total stranger—the process of forgiveness is an art and a science, and this hands-on guide walks readers through it in 8 key steps. How can we become forgivingly “fit”? How can we identify the source of our pain and inner turmoil? How can we find meaning in what we have suffered, or learn to forgive ourselves? What should we do when forgiveness feels like a particularly tall order? All these questions and more are answered in this practical book, leading us to become more tolerant, compassionate, and hopeful human beings.

Author : Mona Gustafson Affinito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Forgiveness
ISBN : 1572241756

Get Book

When to Forgive by Mona Gustafson Affinito Pdf

A practical guide with thoughtful advice for anyone who has been harmed by another.

Author : Loren Toussaint,Everett Worthington,David R. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9401778957

Get Book

Forgiveness and Health by Loren Toussaint,Everett Worthington,David R. Williams Pdf

This volume collects the state-of-the-art research on forgiveness and mental and physical health and well-being. It focuses specifically on connections between forgiveness and its health and well-being benefits. Forgiveness has been examined from a variety of perspectives, including the moral, ethical and philosophical. Ways in which to become more forgiving and evolutionary theories of revenge and forgiveness have also been investigated and proposed. However, little attention has been paid to the benefits of forgiveness. This volume offers an examination of the theory, methods and research utilized in understanding these connections. It considers trait and state forgiveness, emotional and decisional forgiveness, and interventions to promote forgiveness, all with an eye toward the positive effects of forgiveness for a victim’s health and well-being. Finally, this volume considers key moderators such as gender, race, and age, as well as, explanatory mechanisms that might mediate links between forgiveness and key outcomes.

Author : Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401952044

Get Book

Forgiveness by Iyanla Vanzant Pdf

Too many of us feel trapped in stagnant romantic, family, or workplace relationships. Weighed down by toxic thoughts and emotions, we might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). In this tradepaper edition, Iyanla Vanzant challenges us to liberate ourselves from the wounds of the past and to embrace the new power of forgiveness. With Iyanla’s 21-Day Forgiveness Plan, you’ll explore relationship dynamics with your parents, children, friends, partners, co-workers, bosses, yourself, and even God. With journaling work and Emotional Freedom Techniques (also known as "tapping"), you’ll learn to live with more love; gain new clarity on your life, lessons, and blessings; and discover a new level of personal freedom, peace, and well-being. Forgiveness doesn’t mean agreeing with, condoning, or even liking what has happened. Forgiveness means letting go and knowing that—regardless of how challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem—everything is just as it needs to be in order for you to grow and learn. When you focus on how things "should" be, you deny the presence and power of love. Accept the events of the past, while being willing to change your perspective on them. As Iyanla says, "Only forgiveness can liberate minds and hearts once held captive by anger, bitterness, resentment, and fear. Forgiveness is a true path to freedom that can renew faith, build trust, and nourish the soul."

Author : Desmond Tutu,Mpho Tutu
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062203588

Get Book

The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu,Mpho Tutu Pdf

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.

Author : Henry Cloud,John Sims Townsend
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780310585909

Get Book

Boundaries by Henry Cloud,John Sims Townsend Pdf

When to say yes, when to say no to take control of your life.

Author : Cindi McMenamin
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736948593

Get Book

When a Woman Overcomes Life's Hurts by Cindi McMenamin Pdf

Author Cindi McMenamin’s bestseller When Women Walk Alone (more than 100,000 copies sold) confirms her gift for encouraging women who are journeying through difficult seasons. In her newest book, she offers help for women who are dealing with wounds from unresolved issues in their past. When a Woman Overcomes Life’s Hurts explores the kinds of hurt women experience and offers gracious, biblical counsel on how and where to find healing. Cindi shares the faulty thinking that often accompanies life’s wounds and replaces it with truths every woman needs to know about how God views her. She takes women from feeling insignificant to realizing how much the Lord loves them feeling undesirable to seeing their true beauty feeling they’re not good enough to recognizing how special they are This is a book filled with grace, redemption, and transformation—leading women toward a renewed focus on God, a resurgence of inner joy, and better relationships with others.

Author : Robert D. Enright
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781433804809

Get Book

Forgiveness Is a Choice by Robert D. Enright Pdf

By demonstrating how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven this self-help book benefits people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment.

Author : Cheryl Brodersen
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736955973

Get Book

When a Woman Chooses to Forgive by Cheryl Brodersen Pdf

Are you experiencing God’s great gift of a life lived in forgiveness? Does your heart know how to forgive someone when trust has been broken? And when your actions hurt others, do you seek forgiveness? Cheryl Brodersen, author of When a Woman Lets Go of the Lies and daughter of Calvary Chapel founder Pastor Chuck Smith, reveals the transformation you’ll experience when you learn why and how to forgive someone. With inspiring stories, biblical teaching, and a compassionate perspective, she explores: how to trust God’s forgiveness why unforgiveness takes a toll on your body, spirit, and mind how anger and regret can be replaced by freedom and joy how grace transforms thoughts, choices, and relationships the breakthrough you need to forgive yourself, God, and others Discover the beauty of life without regrets and doubt. Choose to forgive and choose to move forward in the great adventure God has for you.

Author : David Rakel
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781416029540

Get Book

Integrative Medicine by David Rakel Pdf

Drawing on solid scientific evidence as well as extensive first-hand experience, this manual provides the practical information you need to safely and effectively integrate complementary and alternative treatment modalities into your practice. It explains how alternative therapies can help you fight diseases that do not respond readily to traditional treatments... presents integrative treatments for a full range of diseases and conditions, including autism, stroke, chronic fatigue syndrome, and various forms of cancer...explores how to advise patients on health maintenance and wellness...and offers advice on topics such as meditation, diet, and exercises for back pain. 24 new chapters, a new organization, make this landmark reference more useful than ever. Provides dosages and precautions to help you avoid potential complications.Delivers therapy-based pearls to enhance your patient care.Facilitates patient education with helpful handouts. Offers helpful icons that highlight the level and quality of evidence for each specific modality.Includes bonus PDA software that lets you load all of the therapeutic review sections onto your handheld device.Presents a new organization, with numerous section headings and subheadings, for greater ease of reference.Provides additional clinical practice and business considerations for incorporating integrative medicine into clinical practice.

Author : Janis A. Spring
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780063219663

Get Book

How Can I Forgive You? by Janis A. Spring Pdf

“If you are struggling with issues of betrayal—or the challenge of whether and how to forgive—here is the most helpful and surprising book you will ever find on the subject.”—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger Everyone is struggling to forgive someone: an unfaithful partner, an alcoholic parent, an ungrateful child, a terrorist. This award-winning book provides a radical way for hurt parties to heal themselves—without forgiving, as well as a way for offenders to earn genuine forgiveness. Until now, we’ve been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring, a gifted clinical psychologist and award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives—without forgiving. She also offers a powerful and unconventional model for earning genuine forgiveness—one that asks as much of the offender as it does of the hurt party. Beautifully written and filled with insight, practical advice, and poignant case studies, this bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and ourselves, while answering such crucial questions as these: How do I forgive someone who is unremorseful or dead? When is forgiveness cheap? Can I heal myself – without forgiving? How can the offender earn forgiveness? What makes for a good apology? How do we forgive ourselves for hurting another human being?

Author : Michael E. McCullough,Steven J. Sandage,Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0830816836

Get Book

To Forgive Is Human by Michael E. McCullough,Steven J. Sandage,Everett L. Worthington Jr. Pdf

Grounding their analysis in groundbreaking research, Michael E. McCullough, Steven Sandage and Everett L. Worthington Jr. show how you can experience authentic forgiveness in ways that bring restoration and healing.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780525560753

Get Book

Forgive by Timothy Keller Pdf

Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller outlines the reasons why forgiveness has to be a central part of everyone’s lives. Forgiving anyone in a meaningful way is one of the hardest things a person has to do. If you do not, resentment and vengeance begin to consume you. It is nearly impossible to move past transgression without forgiveness, but few people have the resources and the tools to forgive others fully and move on with their lives. Forgiveness is an essential skill, a moral imperative, and a religious belief that cuts right to the core of what it means to be human. In Forgive, Timothy Keller shows readers why it is so important and how to do it, explaining in detail the steps you need to take in order to move on without sacrificing justice or your humanity.

Author : Jacqui Bishop,Mary Grunte
Publisher : Station Hill Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0882681427

Get Book

How to Forgive When You Don't Know How by Jacqui Bishop,Mary Grunte Pdf

Author : Lewis B. Smedes
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 006128582X

Get Book

Forgive and Forget by Lewis B. Smedes Pdf

For all of us who have been wounded by another and struggled to understand and move beyond our feelings of hurt and anger, Lewis Smedes's classic book on forgiveness shows that it is possible to heal our pain and find room in our hearts to forgive. Breaking down the process of healing into four stages and offering stories of real people's experience throughout, this wise book provides hope and solace for all who long for the peace that comes with forgiveness. This classic is now available in an updated paperback PLUS edition with a reader's guide and other bonus materials.