Stop the Forgive and Forget Mantra.

Shelley Roes
7 min readMar 6, 2019

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It’s not a one size fits all.

I could tell she was frustrated with me. I’d been hitting different parts of my body for nigh on half an hour and my answer still wasn’t shifting below eight.

It was me who should be frustrated. She was the one who’d promised to rid me of the pain. To neutralise the negative emotions. To help me to forgive and forget.

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Shelley Roes

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