How to forgive yourself-10 important steps

Hello beautiful soul!

Sometimes life leads us into situations where we cannot see or act clearly or we simply get it wrong and make mistakes.

Making mistakes is part of human nature. In fact, making mistakes is a fundamental part of the emotional learning process. There is nobody that does not make mistakes.

For some of us, those mistakes feel like a prison sentence in which we cannot forgive ourselves.

I believe that until we are able to forgive ourselves fully, we will not be able to find pure joy in life, we won’t be able to appreciate the positives that happen in our life, we won’t be able to focus on improving ourselves, that’s because when we feel guilty or ashamed, our mind will tend to focus on those mistakes we made and how those same mistakes have impacted on others.

Not being able to forgive ourselves would be like living next to a person who 24 hours a day says to us “you were wrong”, which after a while is likely to translate into “you are wrong” “you are not good enough”.

Forgiving yourself requires even more effort and, above all, more time than forgiving another person.

One of the most important turning points in the process of forgiving yourself is to develop empathy and self-compassion, understanding…