The Importance of Forgiving Your Parents

In order to move forward to a better life, past hurts and disappointments have to be forgiven. This does not mean that the hurt will immediately cease or that actions will be forgotten. However, forgiving parents involves coming to grips with what has taken place, fully accepting whatever has happened and the fact that one cannot go back and change events, and recognizing that releasing bad feelings about the person and/or events is necessary in order to move forward.