Gaslighting usually is done within the framework of a culture determined, for good reasons, to hold poor performers accountable for behavior that threatens the health and well-being of patients and colleagues.

In this article, I will explain the difference between anger and hatred, provide a few examples of forgiveness therapy in practice, and share my hopes for how forgiveness therapy may facilitate healing for healthcare workers during this pandemic.

Learn how respect and humility can help overcome prejudice.

Read about what Dr. Barry calls The Parent Wound; the pain created by parent(s) upon a vulnerable child. Learn how forgiveness is the key to freedom from related emotional pain.

Martin Luther King Jr. recounts his brief interaction with a black woman who had been marching in the civil rights movement. When asked how she was doing, King said she answered with "Ungrammatical profundity" when she said, "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." Our forgiveness work points to the burden of unforgiveness, and the relief of letting the past go.