There will come a time when you will need to forgive yourself, and you might find this to be one of the hardest things to do.

To forgive yourself means that you need to accept that you’ve made a mistake, you might have hurt someone, and that’s hard to overcome.

You might feel damaged, broken, or a “screw up.”

Today’s work might be harder than you think. Go to a mirror, look in, and say, “I forgive myself.”

Say the words, mean them, and look yourself right in the eye.

I look back at my life and shake my head at some of the stupid things I did. I argued with people I loved because I didn’t want to be abandoned. I clung on to unhealthy relationships because I didn’t want to be alone. I lashed out at family members and projected my anger onto them. The list goes on and on.

I heard Oprah say the following: “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

That’s an extremely powerful statement.