The Importance of Forgiving Yourself

Forgiveness may be defined as a conscious and voluntary decision to leave behind your feelings of anger, resentment, or desire for revenge toward a certain person or situation. Thus, forgiveness has ethical and moral implications in relation to how you judge others. Furthermore, how those judgments allow you to maintain ties with them. However, forgiving others is often easier than forgiving yourself. You might well ask yourself why this happens. Indeed, why are you sometimes so inflexible in judging your own actions? In this article, we explain what self-forgiveness means and why it’s important to your mental health. We also…