Forgiving Yourself: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Peace With Your Mistakes and Getting on With Your Life
Guilt and self-blame can be incapacitating feelings that only deliberate self-forgiveness will dispel. Forgiving Yourself identifies various types of actions that call for forgiveness, and offers a step-by-step program for eliminating self-defeating behavior so that we may learn to forgive our mistakes, heal our relationships, and get on with becoming our best selves.
Book details
- Author
- Beverly Flanigan
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Personal Growth
Self-Help › Motivational & Inspirational - Topics
- self-forgiveness · guilt and shame · self-blame · personal growth · healing relationships · overcoming mistakes · self-defeating behavior
- ISBN-13
- 9780028619026 (Paperback)9781620455326 (Hardcover)
About the author
BEVERLY FLANIGAN, M.S.S.W., is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin and a therapist in private practice specializing in forgiveness. Her books include Forgiving Yourself: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Peace With Your Mistakes and Getting on With Your Life and Forgiving the Unforgivable: Overcoming the Bitter Legacy of Intimate Wounds.
Flanigan is a Fellow of the Kellogg Foundation, through which she conducted a pioneering study of forgiveness.
When she’s not writing, Flanigan works as a clinician and leads professional workshops on forgiveness. Her research, teaching, and clinical practice together form the foundation of the six-stage forgiveness program she developed.
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