PART 7: Forgiveness Is for You, Not Them 💔🪬🕊️💅🏽💖✨

Quote: “Forgiveness doesn’t excuse the pain—it releases its power over you.”

Let’s talk about the truth they don’t print on pretty quote cards.
Forgiveness is hard.
Not cute. Not linear. Not always graceful.

It’s that quiet moment when your chest tightens at the memory, but instead of replaying the betrayal, you whisper, “I deserve peace more than I deserve revenge.”

Because the truth?
You don’t forgive for them.
You forgive because you deserve to stop carrying what they never apologized for.
You forgive because that rage has taken up too much real estate in your spirit—and baby, your energy is too sacred to be rented out to old pain.

They don’t have to say sorry.
They don’t have to change.
They don’t even have to know.
Your forgiveness is a solo ceremony. It’s you lighting your own candle, not waiting for them to notice the dark.

And I know what you're thinking:

“But they don’t deserve it.”

You’re right.
They probably don’t.
But you do. You deserve freedom.
You deserve rest.

You deserve to feel peace in your chest again—not the tight grip of resentment, not the replay of “why me?” not the bitterness that sours your joy.

Forgiveness is a soft rebellion.
It’s you choosing softness where life tried to make you hard.
It’s choosing to be unbothered—not because it didn’t matter, but because it doesn’t own you anymore.

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Affirmation:
I forgive so I can flourish. I release so I can rise.

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Journal Prompt:

Who (or what) are you still carrying in your spirit that no longer belongs there?

Write them a release letter. Don’t send it. Just write it. Then rip it up, burn it, or bury it with love.
Let that weight go.

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Because forgiveness?
That’s not weakness.
That’s sacred strategy.

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