Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.

When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to the next level of your evolution

To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of your mind. To surrender is to tap into your faith and believe that something bigger than you can do the work without the interruption of your human condition.

To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage.

... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally grasped: the past would only fester and eat away at us if we tried to hold on to it too tightly.

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.