CC09 Workshop 06 - Acceptance: A Healing Gift to the Self - Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Forgiveness | Couples Therapy | Pain and Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 2:00:49
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: This workshop offers a clear, empowering alternative to forgiveness when an offender cannot or will not make amends. Participants learn a structured model of acceptance, a self-healing process that helps people release obsession, understand the offender’s behavior without excusing it, protect their own dignity, and move forward without living in resentment. Through stories, clinical examples, and ten practical steps, the session shows how acceptance restores agency, reduces self-blame, and creates the option of reconciliation only when it is safe and genuinely earned.
Syllabus Description: We're taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. But, is this true? The presenter will spell out concrete strategies for helping hurt parties get healthy, including overcoming their bitter preoccupation with the unrepentant offender, de-shaming the injury, and making peace with the past - all without forgiving.
Educational Objectives:
- To describe how to make peace with the past without forgiving.
- To describe three concrete strategies for helping hurt parties get healthy.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Faculty
Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP Related Seminars and Products
Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board certified clinical psychologist and nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her first book, After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, has sold more than a half million copies and was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the categories of Best First Book and Best Relationship Book. The completely updated second edition (2012) includes a new chapter on affairs in cyberspace. How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To, was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the category of Best Psychology Book. Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, a Living Well Award Silver Medalist, captures the extraordinary, ordinary personal challenges and moments of grace that come with caregiving and growing old.