Chuck Bryant

That doesn't mean you're a saint or you're even feeling saintly or you're conducting yourself in a saintly manner.

And that doesn't matter.

As long as you're feeling inner peace and your life is no longer in turmoil and this person who wronged you doesn't have power over you any longer, that's the point of forgiveness.

Yeah, and that was totally the deal in his case is that was his only way forward to healing himself.

But since this wasn't something that happened to me, I was able to not forgive and remain upset about it.

And he was okay with that.

Yeah, and still to this day, you won't buy that guy beers.

Oh, man.

So there's one other thing that has started to kind of come out of the shadows that's just getting picked up by psychology as far as forgiveness goes, and it's self-forgiveness.

And we don't really have room to talk about that here, but it's worth exploring sometime, maybe in a short stuff.

Yeah, that's a big deal.

Just a lot of times when I'm beating up on myself, Emily says, you need to be nicer to my friend.

Oh, I know.

You've told that before.

It's good stuff.

One of the sweetest things I've ever heard.

What a kind thing to say.

It works.

You know who needs to hear that?

Don Henley.