Years ago at a forgiveness class for Stanford Continuing Studies, one of us met a man who once had a wife and two children and a good job. But he threw it all away because of a gambling addiction that ...

So often I meet people who have violated their own conscience and they now carry around a self-loathing in their heart every day of their life. The act becomes a kind of final self-judgment on who the ...

My mom suffered from several health issues for many, many years before she passed away in December 2014. As a result, I found myself very depressed for several months. I felt a very intense and deep ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Discover how forgiveness reshapes the brain, eases the body, and helps us move forward with greater compassion and freedom. Summary: Forgiveness isn’t ...

Once forgiveness enters the chat, everything gets easier. Resetting your budget no longer feels like punishment and starts feeling like empowerment. Goals feel realistic instead of delusional.

Apologizing and rebuilding trust take time, yet these steps pave the way toward self-forgiveness and stronger relationships. Grant “Skip” T. remembers his hand trembling the day he sat down to write a ...

Open almost any conversation about wrongdoing in America, and the idea of forgiveness will not be far behind. It’s one of our most cherished cultural ideals. We talk about it as a form of moral ...

Recent advances in the study of forgiveness have increasingly illuminated its intricate role in mental health. Forgiveness, broadly defined as a conscious process in which negative emotions towards an ...