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    Beyond Forgiveness: a Big-Picture Guide to Freedom and Empowerment
    Beyond Forgiveness: a Big-Picture Guide to Freedom and Empowerment
    Beyond Forgiveness: a Big-Picture Guide to Freedom and Empowerment
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    Beyond Forgiveness: a Big-Picture Guide to Freedom and Empowerment

    By Debbianne DeRose

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    Let's be real: some very unsavory stuff happens here on Earth. It's completely understandable if you have thoughts and feelings of anger, resentment, vengeance, sadness or what-have-you. It's understandable, but it's not necessarily kind to YOU to keep carrying them around.

    There are lots of helpful forgiveness books available, many of which focus on helping you release those yucky emotions and thoughts. But for many people, that's not enough. The nagging question of "why?" goes unanswered. Why did this happen to me, in this way, at this time? Why does bad stuff need to happen at all? You may have unfinished business with your own soul, higher self, or with the universe or god or life itself. And that's understandable too.

    Come and explore answers to the really big questions in this guided journey Beyond Forgiveness. True freedom and empowerment are waiting for you there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbianne DeRose
    Release dateAug 2, 2015
    ISBN9781310766442
    Beyond Forgiveness: a Big-Picture Guide to Freedom and Empowerment
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    Debbianne DeRose

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      Beyond Forgiveness - Debbianne DeRose

      Beyond Forgiveness:

      A BIG-PICTURE GUIDE TO

      FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT

      by Debbianne DeRose

        Published by PiscAquarian Press

      www.debbianne.com

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      Copyright 2020 Debbianne DeRose

      All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in reviews, articles, and recommendations.

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      Table of Contents

      Dear Reader

      PART 1: Toward Forgiveness

      What Happened?

      The 3-Day Anger Letter

      For-Giving and Self-Love

      Working Definitions

      Who or What are you, Anyway?

      Is Ego the Bad Guy?

      Deconstructing Your Reality

      Compassion Training

      Let’s Get Personal

      PART 2: BEYOND Forgiveness

      Going Beyond

      Your True Self

      The Game

      Game Set-Up

      Love Opps

      Emotion as Messenger

      Anger

      Hurt

      Resentment

      Guilt

      Fear

      Other emotions

      Divine Perspective

      Casting Call

      Post-Production

      Karma

      Revisioning

      Additional Tools

      Ho’oponopono

      Energy Work

      Water

      Forward Momentum

      Epic-logue

      About the Author

      Dear Reader,

      I remain 100% compassionate toward you regarding whatever unsavory life experiences have brought you to this book. Some very difficult stuff happens in this Earth plane.

      It may have been something that happened to you when you were quite young, or maybe it was more recent. Maybe it’s something that didn’t happen directly to you but to someone you know or love, or to humanity in general. Anything that goes against the grain of Love is painful to us, because Love is who and what we are, underneath it all. These acts of unloving behavior run counter to what we inherently know and feel deep down inside. It can seem like a violation of the goodness and sanctity of life as a whole.

      And yet… there is a bigger picture that you can access to help make sense of it all. That is what I would like to explore with you here.

      Your feelings are more than legitimate—all of them. They convey pivotal messages. Probably you’ve already gone through a wide array of emotions during and after the incident(s) occurred. It’s important to experience and honor all of your feelings. Forgiveness has nothing to do with marginalizing, disregarding, disrespecting, or glossing over your emotional process in any way. And it’s not about validating or approving bad behavior either. Instead, it’s about treating yourself with love and kindness.

      I’m not offering you spiritual platitudes to make you feel good in some false superficial way. This book is not a happy face sticker to slap over the top of your suffering.

      The ideas contained in this book are designed to help you find true freedom. It’s not a substitute for that important emotional journey, but it may serve as a helpful guide or a liberating sequel.

      Why does bad stuff happen at all? That is the question we’re going to explore. Many a big-hearted person has turned away from spirituality and embraced cynicism on account of that seemingly unanswerable age-old question. The observation and experience of terrible things in this life causes many to conclude that there is no goodness in this world—no order, no master plan. What about you? What is your worldview on such things?

      If you’re willing to at least entertain the idea that there could possibly be a method to the madness of life… well, then I invite you to continue reading.

      As a mentor, some of the individuals I’ve worked with have endured some pretty intense stuff, usually during childhood. This does not make me an expert or authority figure. My academic degrees are not in psychology or therapy. If it’s important to you that an author have those kinds of credentials, I recommend the classic Gerald Jampolsky forgiveness books, for starters.

      What I do have to offer you is the same thing I offer my mentoring clients: perspective. Far from dogma that you need to blindly accept, I offer perspectives designed to reinvigorate your own inner truth, which may or may not have been dormant or covered up by doubt and confusion. When something resonates within your soul, you know it. YOU are the ultimate authority in your life, and I am a helper rather than a guru.

      My aim is to inspire you to reconnect with true freedom and empowerment, and if possible, to help you see an old situation through brand new eyes. Feeling good is a natural bi-product of connecting with inner truth. The goal here is to clear away the things that dim your light.

      If some or all of what I’m saying is helpful, that’s great. If only a little bit of it rings true, that’s also great. Take the pearls and discard the rest.

      This book was written through me and for me just as much as it was written by me . I have my own forgiveness work to do, and this book showed up in perfect timing. Life is funny like that. Our inner guidance is real and ever-present, and the big picture at play is replete with benevolence, love, and purpose.

      Are you ready to go big-picture with me?

      With Love and Support,

      

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      PART 1:

      Toward Forgiveness

      What Happened?

      It’s helpful to get things out of your head, off your chest, and onto some paper.

      It’s up to you how to navigate the process in this book, but I will give you some tips. If you have several incidents that are similar, you may want to combine them and address them together at the same time. If there is more than one person involved, you’ll probably want to address each person separately, one at a time.

      Ready to dive in?

      Grab a notebook or journal. Even though the boxes are small on this sample Worthsheet below, you’ll probably want to write freestyle and use multiple pages.

      Part A, The Story: Write about what happened. Who did what, when, where?

      Part B, How I Felt (or Feel): What feelings did (or does) The Story trigger in you? Check as many boxes as apply: Angry, Hurt, Resentful, Guilty, Afraid. If you feel disappointed or feel that your expectations were not met, check hurt. If you feel worried, check afraid. If it’s not any of those things, check Something else.

      Parts C and D: We’ll get to these later, but allow for several blank pages in your journal.

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      By the way, if at any point you find yourself feeling some really intense feelings, you may want to take a break and let things percolate in your consciousness. For instance, maybe take a walk (in nature, if possible), or a nap, or meditate, do something creative or mundane or constructive—whatever you’re inspired to do next. If you can return to this process feeling refreshed and calm, it will be more fruitful. And if you do end up waiting a day or so, notice what

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