Is it Time to Forgive Your Parents? It’s Your Choice to Say “When”

When you think about your parents, or the people who raised you, what comes to mind? Do you feel a sense of peace and well-being that they taught you to be an upstanding person? Or do you feel a twinge of guilt or resentment for them? Perhaps you feel very angry for the subtle or not-so-subtle infringements on your personhood they imposed throughout the years. For some people, there may be feelings of distress over abandonment.

All of these feelings are to be expected, depending on what sort of childhood you had growing up. All parents and/or caregivers instill their conscious and subconscious beliefs into their children. This is completely natural. It is also natural for you to feel the way you do, depending on the sort of childhood you had. However, there must come a time for maturity to take over and help you learn from their mistakes, so that you can be the person you were meant to be.

To do this, you must take some steps to completely free yourself from the feelings you have been harboring all these years. Depending on how old you are, you may have a large amount of resentment that has progressively built up. Not to worry though, because forgiveness is not based on the quantity of missteps your parents made. Rather, it is up to you work at it as a batch effort. After all, what is the point of forgiving for one thing, but clinging to the negativity of another?

The First Step is to Recognize Your Feelings.

The Second Step is to Forgive.

The Third Step is to Move On.

Now, You Are Ready to Forgive Yourself.

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