Twenty years of field notes.
Long-form essays, short field notes, technique deep-dives, and answers to the same handful of questions we keep getting asked. Searchable. Sorted by pillar. Free, always.
Long-form essays, short field notes, technique deep-dives, and answers to the same handful of questions we keep getting asked. Searchable. Sorted by pillar. Free, always.
Q: As a practitioner, can I expect my own forgiveness work to eventually be complete — or is it always ongoing?
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…
Across client work, certain patterns appear with enough consistency to constitute a picture of how forgiveness and release actually operates — beyond what any…
There is one insight that reorganizes how forgiveness work is conducted with clients — not by replacing what already works, but by clarifying the…
The professional forgiveness work often reaches a point where it stops making sense at the professional level alone — where the current professional harm…
Unforgiveness is typically framed as a problem — something to be resolved, released, overcome. A less-examined perspective: for many practitioners, the unforgiven pattern is…
Understanding the nervous system’s role in forgiveness work is not a detour from the practical work. It is the map that makes the practical…
Forgiveness work addresses multiple layers of the practitioner’s experience. The layer that is most consistently missed — and that is most persistently maintaining the…
The unforgiven pattern is not only a problem. It contains a specific kind of wisdom — one that is worth understanding before the work…