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Practice of Forgiveness Shown to Help Victims Heal

Think back to a time you felt wronged by someone. Does the memory of the injury still make you upset or cause you stress? 

Considering the amount of minor and major trauma we sustain throughout our lives, we are given surprisingly little information about how to process these unpleasant experiences to help minimize long-term negative effects.

This hour, we will learn about the psychological study of forgiveness, which promotes the idea that forgiveness can empower victims and help them move forward with their life. Forgiveness can be defined as the act of letting go of anger. It is not forgetting, condoning, excusing, or reconciling with your offender.

We will talk with Scarlett Lewis, a Newtown mother who lost her six-year-old son Jesse in the Sandy Hook shooting. After going through her own journey to forgive Adam Lanza and his mother, she created the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation and now works to promote social and emotional learning in Connecticut schools. Lewis will be joined by two experts in the field to discuss how one can develop their forgiveness muscle and where the practice is currently being used to help individuals, communities, and countries heal.

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

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