This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Forgiveness can be a tricky beast. We’re often told to ...

The phrase “forgive and forget” is a common slogan and recommendation. But does it make sense for trauma survivors? While researching for my book, You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your ...

When we’ve experienced wrongs and trauma at the hands of the people and institutions that once supported us, how do we forgive — and heal? When Celeste Gracia was 17, her religiously conservative ...

The mother of a DeKalb County brother and sister who were brutally murdered decades ago is speaking for the first time since her children’s cold case was solved. Surrounded by state and local leaders, ...

One sibling steals the other’s favorite toy, or maybe they both committed their share of offenses. Their parents want them to apologize to each other. A spouse failed to finish their part of the ...

Over the last decade and a half, the internet has become less of an online networking system and more of a unique, unrestricted subculture. It includes a vast digital playground of media that is sent, ...

Somewhere along the way, we confused healing with forgetting. We started believing that to be evolved meant to erase the face of the person who shattered us. That to be spiritual, or “above it all,” ...