How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most
In April 2023, my brother David Breaux—popularly known as “the Compassion Guy” in Davis, California—was stabbed to death as he slept on a bench in the town’s Central Park.
He’d earned that nickname after spending 14 years collecting definitions of the word “compassion” from passersby in a notebo…
How I Practiced Forgiveness When It Hurt the Most
In April 2023, my brother David Breaux—popularly known as “the Compassion Guy” in Davis, California—was stabbed to death as he slept on a bench in the town’s Central Park.
He’d earned that nickname after spending 14 years collecting definitions of the word “compassion” from passersby in a notebo…
Breaking the Silence: Childhood Sexual Abuse and Forgiveness
When Andy Woodward showed remarkable talent for football as a boy, it brought him to the attention of the coach who sexually abused him for years. After bottling up his emotions and suffering panic attacks on the football pitch, Andy made the extraordinary journey from silence to speaking out on a …
Forgive, Don’t Forget: Why Trust Has to Be Rebuilt
Forgiveness can become one of the most confusing parts of relationships after betrayal. You want relief from carrying the hurt—but you may fear that letting go means letting the person back in.
You may be tired of replaying what happened.
Tired of feeling your body react to their name.
Tired of won…
He Broke Free From Chronic Pain: David Hanscom, MD
In 1990 David Hanscom was a fearless spine surgeon when he started developing migraine headaches, ringing in the ears, skin rashes, burning feet, anxiety, depression and full-blown OCD. He bounced around the medical system for 15 years before finally learning to shift his own body chemistry from s…
“I should be a statistic”
Mark Goodman spent part of his teen years living homeless on the streets and beaches of Los Angeles. For him it was safer than the alternative: remaining in his childhood home with an alcoholic, abusive father. Mark and his brothers endured abuse so severe it led one of them to take his own life.
…
Relationships 2.0: Why Did You Do That?
As we go through life, we’re constantly trying to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. Psychologist Liane Young says this ability to assess other people’s thoughts is an extraordinary feat of cognition. This week, in a favorite episode from our archives, we explore this mental su…
No Hard Feelings
Holding a grudge can feel like a form of justice, a way of punishing those who have wronged us. But psychologist Fred Luskin says that more often than not, grudges don't hurt the targets of our anger. Instead, they only hurt us. This week, we explore the lingering effects of long-standing animositi…
S3E39 What If It's Not About You? Developing Resilience through Forgiveness
Friends,
What if some of the things you've taken personally were never actually about you?
In this episode of Forgiveness is for YOU, I explore an idea from forgiveness expert Dr. Fred Luskin: we often take other people's behavior personally and turn it into a story about ourselves.
Someone rej…
Dr. Fred Luskin on Forgiveness: When the Hurt Becomes Your Whole Story
The past cannot be changed. The hurt done to us cannot be undone. How do we move forward and find peace?
Dr. Fred Luskin, director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects and author of Forgive for Good, offers forgiveness as a path to that peace. Drawing on decades of research, he clears up…
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