Forgiveness is often hard. It’s not always possible. But it can begin a process of healing

As a clinical psychologist who works with couples, Everett Worthington was used to talking a lot about forgiveness.

But it wasn’t until there were two sudden deaths in the Virginia-based psychologist’s family that he began to develop a profound understanding of his life’s work firsthand.

“I had started doing research on how to help people forgive and about what forgiveness is,” he tells RN’s Sunday Extra.

“Shortly after that, a couple of years later, my mother was murdered in a home invasion. So that put my theory and intervention to help others to the test.

“I had to wrestle with those questions myself.”

Professor Worthington’s…