Everett Worthington Jr.: Forgiveness as a Coping Mechanism | Bouncing Back #8

Getting offended is inevitable, and it’s a natural response to words or anything that hurts us. However, we can’t live a life holding grudges, this will significantly impact our physical and mental health. Forgiveness may seem hard but it is the key to a peaceful state of mind, this can be done by acknowledging our emotions and identifying what needs to be healed. Forgiveness will help us to release negative emotions (e.g. hate, anger, resentment, and bitterness) and replace them with more peaceful emotions. 

In this episode of Bouncing Back: The Personal Resilience Science Insights Podcast, host Tia Harmer is joined by Everett Worthington Jr. Everett is a Commonwealth Professor Emeritus working in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia and has published over 45 books, 500+ articles, and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, humility and positive psychology, as well as marriage and family topics, religion and spirituality. Everett has developed the REACH Forgiveness model that is being tested currently in global grant-funded randomized controlled trials in 5 countries, and has developed numerous other positive psychological interventions.

The conversation started by discussing the two models of forgiveness, decisional forgiveness and emotional forgiveness, and how forgiveness can let out negative emotions within ourselves. He also shared his forgiveness practices that we can do in our daily lives. 

Follow Everett's work via https://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com/ for free resources

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