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Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-By-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope (Apa Lifetools) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert D. Enright
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 15008
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 299
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1557987572
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.92
EAN: 9781557987570
ASIN: 1557987572
Publication Date: May 2001
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Forgiveness Is a Choice is a self-help book for people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment. As a creator of the first scientifically proven forgiveness program in the country, Robert D. Enright shows how forgiveness can reduce anxiety and depression while increasing self-esteem and hopefulness toward one's future. This groundbreaking work demonstrates how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven. Filled with wisdom and warm encouragement, the book leads the reader on a path that will bring clarity and peace. Enright is careful to distinguish forgiveness from "pseudoforgiveness" and to reassure readers that forgiveness does not mean accepting continued abuse or even reconciling with the offender. Rather, by giving the gift of forgiveness, readers are encouraged to confront and let go of their pain in order to regain their lives.
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 I was VERY disappointed in this book January 6, 2009
J. M. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book came highly recommended as a book that gave you a choice to forgive or not and by so doing, allowing that not forgiving was ok and an acceptable choice. That is not what I found in this book. Beside the fact that it is dry and poorly written, it only seems to espouse forgiveness as a way to live through a past or current hurt. Well, I disagree. I do not think everything in this world is forgiveable and that an individual should have either option and be healthy with either choice. I do not feel if I choose to not forgive my spouse of 37 years for having 6 affairs for the past 26, one with a man, all with my friends and the past 13 with one friend who maintained our friendship, holding my hand through my double mastectomy, my MS diagnosis, etc., that I will be the worse for it if I do not forgive them. If I do, it will be for me, but I at this moment in time choose not to. Sorry. When this book was recommended to me, by one of the authors coauthors of another book, I understood it to be one that gave you an option and I see none in this book. Only forgiving and searching for anger you never knew you had, for your mother not letting you frost the cake when you were ten but let your sister. I have not time for that. I am in a major life crisis. This was a waste of my time and money.
 Inspirational October 15, 2008
Rita Carlson (Lisbon, Portugal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book very inspirational. It was suggested to me by my therapist and help me a lot in my forgiveness process which is still going on.
I learnt that forgiveness is a gift we choose to give or not.
I believe each of us has somebody to forgive in life for whatever reason. That's why I would recommend to read it and start a new way of looking at life.
Forgiveness is not an easy process at all.
Rita Carlson
 Forgiveness is a choice September 22, 2008
V. Drury (Spokane, Wa.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't really say that I am really enjoying this book, but what I can say is, the book is helping a lot. My counselor and myself are going through a chapter a week, staying as long as needed on each chapter and things in the book are bringing up things that need to be talked about. In saying that I have to say this is a very helpful book. Each story is different, most stories are difficult, so don't expect this to be a easy book for it is not. But it is helpful and I fully recommend it!!!
MensSelfesteem.com March 4, 2008
Michael Lafrinere
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Forgiveness Is A Choice", is not light reading. It is to be taken seriously as more than a simple self-help pamplet of general info. The book is a complete study and application text book that any college would be proud to have taught by its highest lever psychology professors. The reader must be committed and immerse themselves in the four stages of "anger", "deciding to forgive", "working on forgiveness", and "discovery and release", for forgiveness to really work. Within the book, you will see yourself and be able to identify with characters and situations and be able to find root causes for peoples feelings of anger and resentment. You will see your self, people that you know, and you will see your family. You will not be healed overnight by reading this book. It is designed with logic in mind and makes no ill-found promises either. You will learn that forgiving someone does much more for the giver than the receiver and there is an abundance of "positive" in accepting that you forgave someone. Forgiving is an art that you must learn to be a better you and there is a ton of proof in this book. Honestly, I was surprised to learn how little I knew about the subject of forgiveness, but Robert Enright has shown me the way and put me on the right path of knowledge.
Superb January 21, 2008
Harmonious (San Juan, PR Puerto Rico)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the second book on forgiveness that I have read in one year's span. This book was written by a Dr. in psychology (Robert Enright) and it is formal and very scientific in its approach to the main subject. Dr. Enright is recognized as the foremost authority on forgiveness.
The book is very complete as it has definitions, case stories and a framework that neatly outlines the process of forgiving. This is, most likely, the forgiveness "definitive" book. I will have to reread this book in order to take advantage of all the wisdom contained in it.
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