Twenty years of field notes.

The unforgiven pattern a client carries is not only a problem to be resolved. It is a system that is doing something — something…

Working with clients on forgiveness and release changes the practitioner’s relationship to the material — and not always in the directions that are obvious.…

Coaches who have made progress in supporting clients through forgiveness work often carry their own unresolved forgiveness material. One distinction changes how they approach…

Healing practitioners who have done extensive forgiveness work sometimes find themselves at a persistent layer that ordinary forgiveness practice does not address. Understanding that…

Coaches face a specific version of the forgiveness challenge that is distinct from what their clients face — and understanding that specificity clarifies where…

The healer’s relationship to their own forgiveness work is distinct from the client’s relationship to theirs — and the distinctions are not commonly addressed…

Healers and coaches carry a version of the forgiveness pattern that has features specific to the helping role — features that make the standard…

Forgiveness work stalls for identifiable reasons — and recognizing those reasons shifts the clinical intervention from repeated application of what has already been tried…

Clients who struggle most with forgiveness work share a set of features that, once recognized, clarify where the clinical attention needs to go. Take…

The research on forgiveness is more specific than its popular presentations, and its specific findings have direct implications for how practitioners conduct the work.…

Clinical forgiveness work produces several results that are counterintuitive — that run against what both practitioners and clients might expect based on the way…

In the work of supporting clients through forgiveness and release, there is a layer that is consistently undertreated — not because practitioners are unaware…