A personal reflection (YouTube video) in which the speaker discusses how a book—specifically passages cited from 'Karen'—helped them work through forgiveness and self-forgiveness after a traumatic event involving their sister. The speaker credits writing the book as pivotal to processing responsibility and emotional change.
One part of this that is a through line in the book is forgiveness. I did think that some of the intention behind this message I got was to help me with that, was to finally put it to bed a little bit. The lack of forgiveness that I would sort of visit upon myself was kind of brutal Sometimes. The book helped me to slowly release it. The forgive yourself idea that comes in that Karen mentions several times in the book, I was admonished to forgive myself as often as I could. I took a lot of this on myself because for whatever reasons, you know, I was a big brother. I always protected her. And that was slammed shut, you know, on that one night. In that moment, everything I knew changed, and everything I thought I was was challenged. And there was nothing I could do about it until I wrote this book.
