Deep Dive: Forgiving Yourself

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I find that most people have an easier time forgiving others than forgiving themselves for the mistakes or naughty things they’ve done. People can carry around shame, disappointment and self-hate for a very long time. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
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0:23.6	I find that most people have an easier time
0:26.6	forgiving others than forgiving themselves
0:29.6	for the mistakes or naughty things that they've done.
0:33.6	People can carry around shame, disappointment,
0:36.6	and self-hate for a very long time. I always say
0:40.7	that you should only forgive someone when they've earned it. I think that's true of yourself as well.
0:47.9	And the way you earn forgiveness is by following the four R's, taking responsibility, showing true remorse, doing whatever it
0:58.6	takes to make sure you don't repeat your mistake, and trying to repair the damage you've caused.
1:05.1	Before Nancy called me for help, she didn't realize she had already started to do the work
1:10.5	necessary to forgive herself
1:12.7	for the abortion she had as a teenager. Nancy, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for
1:23.4	taking my call. Like your last two callers'm I'm nervous as well I need some help I
1:31.0	when I was 15 years old dumb teenager I got pregnant with my boyfriend at the time and I had an
1:40.0	abortion and I don't and I'm in my late 40s now and I have not been able to forgive myself
1:48.7	okay I ask you what your criteria are like if I were your friend and I did something wrong
1:56.5	what criteria would I have to go through for you to forgive me?
2:03.2	So just tell me how you see forgiveness.
2:09.5	Wow, that's a really deep, tough question.
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