Great understanding here, and I appreciate your unapologetic style of writing about it. Anytime “forgiveness” is prefaced with a “should,” it’s pretty much bad news. Many people feel like they have to forgive otherwise the pain will eat them inside. But it seems that in doing that, they are actually forgiving themselves. Allowing the anger, rage, and sadness to be there is a form of self- forgiving too. We are good enough to carry all of our multiplicity in one container.

Erica Louise Shugart

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Wave-riding lover of everything wet. Less energy for the screen and more for my animal and plant neighbors.