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."

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.

The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted emotional hurt. It does not minimize the devastation of that hurt. It does not require reconciliation with the one who inflicted the hurt. Rather, it describes a process, followed with success by people around the world, to confront the pain, rise above it to forgive, and in so doing, to loosen the grip of depression, anger, and resentment that has soured life. In this book, noted forgiveness expert Robert D. Enright invites readers to learn the benefits of forgiveness and to embark on a path of forgiveness, leaving behind a legacy of love. Guided by thought-provoking questions, journaling exercises, and Enright’s kind encouragement, readers can chart their own journey through a new life of forgiveness.

This book can help guide the most sophisticated health care provider as well as the inexperienced lay person. Dr. Dincalci's approach takes the reader through a gradual introduction of the stages and phases of forgiveness; then into how to face and then let go of upsets and even deep trauma. He insists that it is in being our own authentic emotions that empowerment, self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others is possible. Anyone embarking on Dr. Dincalci's procedures need only understand that forgiveness is not a once through read but a continuing life process. This book offers an effective process for working upsets through to resolution. It is not a one step cure all. Its true use will be in the progress of our living and referring back to it when other life situations pull more emotional upsets or trauma out of the closet.

Author Rechelle Horton seeks to help you embrace self-acceptance, love, and courage while teaching you how to breakthrough and release your past and emotional pain triggers that sabotage your future joy and happiness. In Breakthrough, she offers a compelling exploration of the ways you can facilitate significant, positive, and lasting change in your life. You’ll learn how to: · release your past; · release toxic patterns; · accept what you cannot change; · face your fears; · achieve healthier outcomes; · gain more courage, confidence, and self-esteem. Rechelle draws from her personal and professional experience to guide, encourage, and support you so you can breakthrough what’s keeping you stuck and change your life for greater success. Delivered in a straightforward, loving, and compassionate way, you embark on a journey of self-discovery to pinpoint the areas of your life that hold you back. Breakthrough helps you gain new perspectives, clarity and insight for personal growth. Providing you with the tools to breakthrough emotionally charged pain triggers, Rechelle shows you how to use your freewill in more dynamic ways for better outcomes.

Helps professional women experiencing feelings of disempowerment and dissatisfaction regain the confidence, courage, and energy to take control of their lives Identifies 12 crises professional women face today and offers specific advice and tools for overcoming them Draws on interviews with over one hundred women, offering inspiring stories and practical advice for addressing and resolving disempowerment Thousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they’ve sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, and balance in their lives to achieve work-related success. Their lives feel unmanageable—and they are confused, blocked, overwhelmed and unable to move forward effectively. Kathy Caprino sheds light on this growing epidemic of disempowerment and shows women how to reinvigorate and reclaim their lives. Breakdown, Breakthrough uses a comprehensive coaching, behavioral, and spiritual framework to explore how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life visions as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment. Caprino outlines a new model for understanding disempowerment, one that focuses on women’s relationships with themselves, with others, with the world, and with what she calls their higher selves. She identifies twelve specific challenges professional women face and offers concrete, practical advice for overcoming each one—helping readers “step back, let go of what is holding them back, and say yes” to creating a compelling and rewarding next chapter of life and work. This is also a deeply personal book. Caprino candidly discusses her own struggles with crippling feelings of disempowerment, and shares moving stories and heartfelt advice gleaned from her interviews with over one hundred women who experienced and overcame the crises she describes. Breakdown, Breakthrough offers working women who are stressed, stuck, and dissatisfied access to new inspiration, hope, and a definite plan of action.

To enter the gateway of forgiveness, you are invited to activate one of your greatest resources, that of your imagination. Where there is a wound there is an opportunity for learning and healing to occur. You can be an active agent in bringing about integration and change in your life and in your global family. Through practices, visualizations, and ceremonies that encourage mindfulness and loving-kindness, you will come to a place where you "remember" how to forgive. After all, it is your natural birthright.