Dara McKinley is a forgiveness expert who has created a new paradigm for forgiveness—as a healing modality. In 2012, with two decades of psychology and spirituality behind her, Dara McKinley faced a difficult situation that none of her previous knowledge could improve. Feeling called to try forgiveness, she searched online for a forgiveness ‘how-to’ and quickly discovered that there was so much about why one should forgive, but nothing about how. Needing directions to follow, she decided to make her own forgiveness step-by-step, which upon completion, left her feeling peaceful for the first time in three years. Impressed by forgiveness’ effectiveness she quickly became a devotee. Over the coming years, her experience with forgiveness would deepen and so would her awareness of popular forgiveness understanding. Specifically she saw that most people had something they wanted to forgive but they didn’t know how. She also saw that mainstream forgiveness definitions were actually obscuring the forgiveness path. In Dara’s program How to Forgive, Dara guides participants beyond mainstream forgiveness understandings.
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Key Topics:
- What brought Dara to forgiveness as a healing modality
- Redefining forgiveness and separating it from pardoning
- The negative impact on the mind-body when you don’t forgive
- nterpersonal vs. intrapersonal forgiveness
- How self-forgiveness plays a role in healing
- The three timeframes forgiveness can address
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