Forgive for Good with Dr. Fred Luskin

Do you know someone who has been hurt in the past and can’t let it go? They aren’t able to move forward with their life. Or maybe they wanted something really badly, but they didn’t get it. Either way, they are stuck.

This episode is for that person. Dr. Fred Luskin is the author of the book “Forgive for Good.” He is also the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects. In this interview, he discusses why forgiveness is a key component of resilience. Dr. Luskin shares how grievances are formed, how to overcome them, and why we live happier healthier lives when we forgive others and ourselves.

Dr. Luskin is the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, a senior consultant in health promotion at Stanford University, and a professor at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Greater Good Science Center. In addition to “Forgive for Good,” Dr. Luskin is the author of “Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship” and co-author of “Stress Free for Good: 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness” along with Dr. Kenneth Pelletier.

“The most important place to practice forgiveness is with the people you love, not with the handful of people who harmed you because they didn’t like you. They don’t matter so much. But what you want to practice forgiveness for is so you let your kids off the hook, you partner off the hook, you let your parents off the hook, so that you have a really good life. That’s the power of forgiveness.” Dr. Fred Luskin talking about who we should forgive and why forgiveness benefits the person who forgives over the people who are forgiven.