i forgive you… for treating me the way you felt about yourself
– butterflies rising
‘i forgive you… for treating me the way you felt about yourself’ is a quote that author butterflies rising originally published in her first poetry book ‘wild spirit, soft heart.’ Over the years, the quote grew in meaning to her and she ended up republishing it in ‘she’s flowers and fire.’
Here is an excerpt on the ‘i forgive you… for treating me the way you felt about yourself’ quote essay in ‘she’s flowers and fire’:
“This is a quote that was in my first book that has gotten complicated reactions over the years. And that’s ok because it came from a complicated place. People seem to either understand and connect to the forgiveness side of it, or they don’t connect because the idea of forgiveness doesn’t sit right with them about someone specific who hurt them. And it came from both of those kinds of places in me. The truth is, when I first wrote it, it wasn’t really about forgiveness for me. It was more me coming to a place of realizing that all the things this person did to hurt me that made me feel so broken and unworthy weren’t even about me. This person treated me the way they treated me because of how they felt about themselves. So, at first, it was less about me forgiving them and more about me putting down all that unworthiness I had been carrying from it.”
The full ‘i forgive you… for treating me the way you felt about yourself’ quote essay can be found on page 296 & 297 of ‘she’s flowers and fire.”
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