Self Forgiveness

I talked to my therapist this week about one of the toughest parts of recovery: self forgiveness. It's easy to focus on the things we've done that we are not proud of. To look at decisions we made in the past with hindsight. But we have to acknowledge something in order to move on: we made the decisions we made in the moment they were made. Not now, when we are wiser. To dwell on our bad decisions isn't learning from them, it's relitigating the past. And you can't change what has been. Only what you do now. And the best thing you can do is act towards the brighter future you deserve.