Healing And Compassion In The Time Of Cancel Culture

What do radical self-love and self-forgiveness look like when placed in today’s context of “cancelling” for our past mistakes?

Laurel Sibanda
6 min readDec 17, 2023
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

We cannot heal when we are too concerned with digging into our pasts, the pasts of others, with the intention of condemnation.

We cannot move forward when we are dismissing growth and progress. For us to honour and acknowledge our social progress, we must fight to get comfortable with our ugly histories.

We must face and accept how it used to be, back in the day, and now choose to move forward from a place of awareness and acceptance. In all the ways that it wasn't before.

As human beings, our collective karma is one we are reckoning with today.

We have all been affected by the actions of our ancestors, we are all the product of the environments we grew up in. We have also been hurt.

In our hurting, we hurt other people. There is so much we didn’t know that we’re learning today. Things we believe to be facts about ourselves and how the world works today can easily be disputed tomorrow.

With technology, we have even more access to new, groundbreaking discoveries and information. We are…

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Laurel Sibanda

Here to be honest. Mostly writing about healing work, spirituality, self-love, love and all other human lessons and blessings. https://linktr.ee/laurelwriter