Forgiveness Retreats

[The Forgiveness Retreat] showed me much more pain that I’ve carried for years and years—the patterns of self abuse that I've held on to perpetuate my original wounding. Then it showed me how to heal those wounds. Learning the forgiveness process [is something] I can carry forward and use on a daily basis.

—Mary Jane Murray

I was able to come to total forgiveness by finding myself and seeing it was I who had to forgive myself first to be able to forgive others. The workshop was way beyond my expectations. I reached a… deeper peace, a deeper self-love and compassion for self than I ever reached before and I am truly grateful and blessed… I tasted, I savored, love and peace with no separation. Only Oneness and Lightness of Being.

—Marlene Madia

I was able to move forward in my life and work through anger and resentment, and understand forgiveness. I can forgive my dad and see him with compassion.

—Doug Gorka

I came in with the intention of learning how to forgive my husband but I came away with so many tools to learn to forgive my "original wound," which is what I really came to forgive, and realized that's where all my other pain stems from. There were so many realizations for me but I would have to say that the hurt or pain that I believed others have inflicted upon me is my own perception as to what actually happened, and that I allowed myself to get hurt. It's my responsibility to be whole and complete within myself and my original wound healed, so that I can look past the actions of others and really see that it's their pain (original wound) that causes them to do the things they do.

—Carol Riley