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Acceptance:
A Healing Gift to the Self
Janis Abrahms Spring,
PhD
Everyone has struggled to
forgive someone at some point. This workshop will present a
radical alternative to forgiveness - a profound,
life-affirming, healing process called Acceptance. This can
be accomplished even when the offender can't or won't make
meaningful repairs for the damage caused. Ten concrete steps
for achieving Acceptance will be spelled out, including
overcoming an obsessive preoccupation with the injury and
de-shaming the transgressor's mistreatment of the offended.
This workshop will also provide an experiential exercise
designed to help patients rise above a violation, repair the
rupture, and consider forgiveness as an avenue to
Acceptance. |
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