The Importance of Forgiveness of Others and Forgiveness of Ourselves

In this episode of Seek Reality Online, Roberta Grimes interviews Brenda Reiss about the importance of forgiving others and forgiving ourselves. Brenda is dedicated to helping people overcome obstacles that hold them back from living life to its fullest, by guiding them through a special 5-Step Forgiveness Process. She says that self-forgiveness helped her to transition out of victimhood and into the life that she was meant to live. Brenda has experienced these obstacles firsthand, in the form of toxic relationships, eating disorders, and anxiety, which can consume everyday life when problems like these are allowed to control our lives. 

Brenda has developed a very successful forgiveness coaching practice, and she has written a great little book titled Forgive Yourself. Roberta suggests two key points to explain why what Brenda teaches is so important. First, to be perfectly frank, the people who wrong us don’t really care whether we ever forgive them. Forgiveness of others is always the gift that we give to ourselves! And it is the greatest gift that we can give to ourselves, no matter how hard it may be! And second, many people don’t even realize that the core problems at the center of their lives have to do with things for which they are blaming themselves. So self-forgiveness may in your case be something that you especially need to learn! 

Robert’s interview of Brenda follows.