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But regardless of whether they actually
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deserve your forgiveness, this is the
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best gift you can give yourself. And I
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see clients, in fact, I had someone this
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week that was like, I've already
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forgiven them. And when I start to dig
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in with EMDR therapy and I start to see
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those um unravelings or peeling back the
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layers of our, you know, so-called
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onion, what I find is people have often
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decided that they forgive somebody, but
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their body has not followed suit. So,
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it's important to understand that
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forgiveness isn't about forgetting. Uh,
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it's not about excusing the harm that
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has been done to you. It's about letting
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go of the emotional burden. Your burden
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that you're carrying, it's the backpack
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of your luggage based on the things that
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someone did to you that shouldn't have
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happened. And it's about finding your
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own peace so that you can live in a more