The Art of Forgiveness with Dara McKinley

People often tell us to forgive. The harder question is what that actually means when you are still hurting.

Dara McKinley joins Jay to discuss the personal crisis that led her to reexamine forgiveness after years of studying psychology and spirituality. She describes the approach she developed through How to Forgive and why familiar definitions did not give her the practical process she was looking for.

Dara and Jay explore resentment, intuition, imagination, and their own relationships with faith. They also consider how forgiveness can become tangled with shame or obligation, and what it might mean to approach it as an internal practice without excusing what happened.

What We Explore

• Why knowing about forgiveness can differ from practicing it
• Dara's personal path to How to Forgive
• Resentment, shame, and inherited religious ideas
• The place of intuition and imagination in her approach
• Jay's experience with meditation and the meaning of faith
• Forgiveness, personal boundaries, and emotional change

About Dara McKinley

Dara McKinley is the founder of How to Forgive. Her work draws on her studies in psychology and spirituality and her personal experience developing a forgiveness practice.

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