When we try hard to forgive and sense that we just aren't there yet, we can experience another kind of sadness, a grief in not getting the relief we crave from our own heartache. In response, we may need more self-compassion than ever. How do you double down on self-compassion when you need it the most?
[image description: A heart with a cap and an angry facial expression looks out at the viewer below the words: "When we've tried to forgive..." The heart appears again to the right, this time with a strung out facial expression and slumped forward, below the words: "and we can't."]