Really Moving On: Healthy Ways to Let Go and Find Closure

by Pierre Alex Jeanty

Here’s the thing, forgiving them is an act of love towards yourself not them. Forgiving them is for you. It’s pulling yourself from under the weight of the situation to save your heart from getting clogged up by hate, anger, jealousy, and anything else that comes with being in your position. It’s making sure what happened to you has no control over you, your thoughts, emotions, feelings, and mind. When you don’t forgive, you hold the situation in, sometimes storing it deep into your heart where only certain triggers remind you that those feelings are there. It’s planting poison in a garden you want to grow love. When the situation exists in your thoughts, your memories, and is stored in your soul, it slowly gains a power that can even destroy you.