If You’ve Been Holding On to Hurt, This Powerful Shift in Perspective May Help You Make Peace With Your Past I never felt comfortable with the word “forgiveness.” It always rubbed me the wrong way, like a scratchy, too-tight sweater. You mean all I have to do is tell the offender “I forgive you,” and those three puny words magically settle the whole matter? Even if there were decades of hurt with no acknowledgement or apology? Rubbish. And yet, for over 10 years, I kept tryin

As we finish out a year like no other, many of us are facing some level of overwhelm. But ancient wisdom offers us a powerful way to transform our experience. One that might just give you some needed relief—or even change your life, like it did mine. “I act like I’m keeping it together, but some days… [voice lowers to a whisper] I’m about to lose my shit.” “My mom’s in the hospital, I can’t even see her, and I don’t know what to tell my kids when they ask, ‘When is she going

Many of us would rather have our toenails pulled out than fully feel our “negative” feelings like sadness, anger, anxiety or fear. But what’s the cost of living like this? We hear a lot of talk right now about “staying positive in these difficult times” and “not letting the [insert any of the 101 current calamities] drag you down.” But amid our fervent efforts to see the glass as half full, we may have drunk a little too much of the glass’s Kool-Aid. Because—like too much of