Is “Radical Forgiveness” really about self-forgiveness and self-love?
Yes, [for instance] the fourth step is to re-frame your story from a spiritual perspective. And that is to say, what could possibly have been the spiritual purpose for this happening to me. I had a situation where I was really upset with my daughter, (age 25), for being promiscuous. And I really wanted her to leave my home. But then I realized that this is another piece to radical forgiveness. If you spot it, you got it. If I’m, upset with her because she is promiscuous, it’s a reflection of the promiscuity that I had when I was 25. And I didn’t want to see it in her…Basically I needed to forgive myself and love that part of me. And when I did my work on it, forgiving myself and forgiving the people in my life that kind of modeled that for me…[By the way,] it’s not about blaming people, it’s about shifting the energy. When I did that work, within three days she moved out. We are on good terms and still very close. Part of the beauty of “Radical Forgiveness” is that when you do this wor
