What is Self-forgiveness?

Self-forgiving is:

Accepting yourself as a human who has faults and makes mistakes.
Letting go of self anger for your past failures, errors, and mistakes.
No longer needing penance, sorrow, and regret over a grievous, self-inflicted, personal offense.
The act of self love after you have admitted your failure, mistake, or misdeed.
The spiritual self healing of your heart by calming self rejection, quieting the sense of failure, and lightening the burden of guilt.
The act of letting go of the need to work so hard to make up for your past offenses.

Lack of self forgiveness can result in:

A loss of love for yourself.
Indifference toward yourself and your needs.
An emotional vacuum in which little or no emotions are shown or shared.
Chronic attacks or angry outbursts against self.
Disrespectful treatment of self.
Self-destructive behaviors.
Self-pitying.
Chronic recalling and reminding of past failures, mistakes, errors, and offenses.
Suspicions about others’ motives, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs when they are accepting of you.
Chronic depression.
Chronic hostility, sarcasm, and cynicism.
Self name calling, belittling, and self demeaning behaviors.
Unwillingness to change and/or unwillingness to seek the help necessary to change.
Resistance to doing what is necessary to heal within and recover from low self-esteem.
Resorting to alcohol, gambling or drugs to burry emotions.
Relapse to drinking or drugging.

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