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Forgiveness doesn't excuse behavior; it looks past it to a greater truth.

s this significant person, receive what you have just been told. Let it in. Reflect back the facts and the feelings that you heard yourself express

, I think partly because it seems strange for us to think of abuse and neglect offering any kind of potential value in our lives. But those of us who have grown up in dysfunctional families know that this upbringing has served us with special gifts, and that

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

develop the necessary mind-sets and actions to adapt well to whatever changes come your way

There's a Predictable Emotional Cycle to Change

Change represents the end of your old self. You can look back, but you can't go back

Change Isn't the Enemy, Fear Is

Your Thinking Is Not Always Your Friend

All changes . . . have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another