In a recent interview with Church News podcast host Sarah Jane Weaver, Loren L. Toussaint shared how forgiveness is good for our physical health. Toussaint is an expert in forgiveness and its health ...

A father forgives the man involved in his son's death. A mother forgives her daughter's killers. One family offers forgiveness to the man who shot their dad. We hear about these stories of people ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode focuses on one of those states ...

Holding onto resentments is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. — a 12-step program saying The above statement (variously misattributed to the Buddha and Nelson Mandela, among ...

Forgiveness can be big or small, but even in small things forgiveness can have a powerful effect on mental health, physical health and happiness. University of Northern Iowa educational psychology ...

There appears to be a major benefit to forgiving someone who hurt or offended you. According to Harvard researchers, the act of forgiveness can have a positive impact on your mental health.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Every year, on October 7, the world observes National Forgiveness and Happiness Day. It’s ...

Enright, who has been studying forgiveness for nearly four decades and is cofounder of the nonprofit International Forgiveness Institute, said there is plenty of evidence that shows the act has ...

Recent advances in the study of forgiveness have increasingly illuminated its intricate role in mental health. Forgiveness, broadly defined as a conscious process in which negative emotions towards an ...