163. How to Make Wrongs Right with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
We Can Do Hard Things
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Can You Forgive Me?
You're never obligated to forgive your abuser, ever. With trauma, never. You might write in your healing process as you do your work of healing. That is harm that can never be fully repaired. It's so good because it's often, it often feels like, can you forgive me? Feels shorthand for, can we pretend that that never happened? Can we go back to way that never happened?" "That feels like the opposite of forgiveness for the person which is accepting that it can never be different"
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