Is some behavior too despicable to forgive? Are some atrocities completely off the table when it comes to forgiveness? Will you be okay on your death bed with outstanding resentment and damaged relationships?

Ginny and Amanda play both sides of the fence by exploring the potential growth and the potential disservice found in both forgiving and not forgiving. 

Key points in this somewhat controversial conversation include:

• How not forgiving a person may be an equally effective and empowering way of healing compared to forgiving
• Healing your inner child is one path toward emotional liberation which does not demand forgiveness
• Anger can serve as motivation to maintain healthy boundaries
• Forgiveness is closely linked to feelings of loss/grief
• How difficult it is to forgive the person/people who were supposed to protect you and didn't
• The Alchemy of Forgiveness: transmuting pain to healing with the power of forgiveness
• The concept of Compassion Forgiveness: Accepting a persons inability to do better due to their own painful personal experiences and unhealed trauma
• Self-forgiveness is the hardest kind of forgiveness to achieve
• There is no right or wrong answer to whether a person should forgive or not. It is deeply personal and no one has the right to tell anyone how to feel or what to do. 

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Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com