TAKE YOUR TIME AND READ THIS WITHUNDERSTANDING Look at your past with gentle eyes. Forgive yourself for the things you didn't know or see, and for the moments you feel you let yourself down. Many nights, you will find yourself awake, thinking of choices you wish were different, words you regret, or words you wish you had said, times when you stayed instead of leaving, and the moments you let fear lead your decisions instead of courage. You did what you could with whatever you knew at that time. The younger you was just surviving. You don't heal by beating yourself up for what happened in the past. So, just hug yourself and say, I forgive you. "I get it now."