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Hey guys, welcome to Tommy Talk.

And today's topic is, it's a powerful one.

It's all about the healing power of forgiveness.

Forgiveness might be one of the most difficult things in our lives to do because it's hard to

move on from something that has so badly hurt us and I understand that and it's taken me time to

forgive people in my life for sure I'm not somebody that's going to sit here and say oh I can

forgive so easily it it can take time and that's okay.

It's a journey, right?

But the ability to forgive is so important because it's not just for the other person, it's for you.

And there's a lot of health benefits to forgiveness and a lot of scary things that can come

your way if you don't forgive. And let me clarify by saying, forgiveness doesn't mean that you need to

become best friends with the person that you're forgiving and totally forget about everything that they did to you

that hurt you because that's not realistic. You're not going to forget. You're never going to forget.

You're going to always remember what somebody did to tremendously hurt you. But what forgiveness

means is you're able to move on from it in a way that doesn't make you harbor anger or resentment or rage or

stress or anxiety because those are things that eat at you. So it allows you to kind of compartmentalize

so you can say, I don't feel those things for you anymore, which is a very freeing thing. But it doesn't mean I need to have

you in my life or have you in my orbit. It just means that I genuinely feel like I have put a lock

on that chapter of my life and I no longer need to be feeling the things that make me feel so

badly based off what you did to me, you know, X, Y, or Z time ago. So there's some real science behind forgiveness on how it impacts

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