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When community pressure to forgive conflicts with your need for justice

My community expects me to forgive someone who hurt my family deeply but I am not ready and feel pressured to perform healing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social expectations about forgiveness can override individual healing processes and create additional trauma for victims.

Worth thinking about

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