In front of 250 social workers, victim advocates and victim service providers, I had the privilege to speak before the Strategic Collaborations for Reaching Underserved Victims on October 8 at UCLA.
Simply I delivered a message on the healing power of forgiveness. And what was my intended result? For those in attendance to heal eventually. I believe a victim may choose to forgive in order to have a quality of life and not live in resentment. Of course it is a personal choice! What I have learned in my journey is that there is no quality of life being a victim and remaining in anger and resentment. It only manifests disease. It is the same as self-abuse. As Mandela taught us, “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die.”
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