Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautifu

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 25,953 ratings

Price: 14.99

Last update: 04-11-2025


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You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.

Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising ways, she’s discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right.

With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of more than 1,000 hours of theological study, Lysa will help you:

  • Learn how to move on when the other person refuses to change and never says they're sorry.
  • Walk through a step-by-step process to free yourself from the hurt of your past and feel less offended today.
  • Discover what the Bible really says about forgiveness and the peace that comes from living it out right now.
  • Identify what's stealing trust and vulnerability from your relationships so you can believe there is still good ahead.
  • Disempower the triggers hijacking your emotions by embracing the two necessary parts of forgiveness.

 

Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa:

  • I Want to Trust You, but I Don't
  • Good Boundaries and Goodbyes
  • It's Not Supposed to Be This Way
  • Uninvited
  • You're Going to Make It
  • Embraced
  • Seeing Beautiful Again

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Jeagrace
    5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful book on healing emotional pain
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2024
    Hurts, painful memories inflicted by other people can live for years in our hearts. Thanks Lysa for sharing your walk from pain, anger and bitterness to forgiveness and peace. NOTHING has helped me heal like your book has I read it and reread it, highlighting passages, meditating on the truths you write. It's a process but so worth it. Thank you also for sharing when you stumbled and got back up again because it helps me feel like I'm not a failure if I have not perfected this walk yet And it so much encourages me to keep seeking this peace in place of anger, bitterness and resentment. Can't thank you enough for writing this book and sharing your own pain with such honesty and a victorious walk towards a heart filled with peace and forgiveness. Thank you for showing us that it's possible and so worth it
  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2025
    The book was very insightful and gave me ideas for how to cope with past experiences in my life that I regret. Highly recommend it to anyone struggling with forgiveness and the path necessary to achieve it.
  • desi93
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2025
    This book it's taking me on an amazing healing journey! It's helping me to learn things about myself and the type of person God called me to be.
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    desi93
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    A great read

    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2025
    This book it's taking me on an amazing healing journey! It's helping me to learn things about myself and the type of person God called me to be.
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  • Gina
    5.0 out of 5 stars strong message
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2025
    Loved it !! Great from the beginning to the end. Not one dull moment for me it was such a good read.
  • Loretta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2025
    The Book was very informative
  • Cindy F.
    4.0 out of 5 stars What Happened?
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
    The book was such an excellent read that gently hand-held me with grace & simple explanation AT THE BEGINNING AND MIDDLE! I started to feel free, light and hopeful. I was getting answers And I felt like it was going to lead to breakthrough, but then....towards the end.... it felt rushed. I felt kinda condemned even though it wasn't trying to be.
    The late middle to the end started to have a lot of personal stories; Not that it was bad, but I felt like it was distracting the journey I thought I was on.

    It had also described this wonderful person we get to meet and new discovery and freedom we will feel
    I thought the book would have touched on that some more. I was feeling very hopeful thinking about a healthier me but then the book started to feel negative as if the pain is something that won't be gone and hp
    How it's necessary to sit in grief. Encouraging pain. It just overall started to feel negative for me and the hopeful feelings I had suddenly went away because of that being reemphasized. That's why I took off a star.
    I realized later that we need God to heal us and we can't do it ourselves, I tried processing alone and I couldn't do it. It started a spiral unless I was doing it wrong.

    Also at first, it explained that reconciliation wasn't necessary, but then towards the end, it seemed like it was being encouraged. It seem like the end had less grace and personality.
    I was also not clear about how to get rid of bitterness. The end was not very guiding and on the readers' level like the beginning.
    I also thought there would have been a little bit more practical journal prompts to help us Or she would have suggested the index card exercise for us.
    Pretty much, it was a very disappointing ending for me. I was thinking about buying two more copies for my friends, but I am left feeling negative right now and I no longer want to.
    That same grace and permission to have freedom in the beginning would have helped if it had continued but it turned negative to me.
    To summarize, this was had a very highly excellent beginning and middle! Lifechanging answers! Good book. Couldnt put it down. The author was present with the reader like it was a conversation
    I love that style of writing! It was amazing, but later on, what happened ?
  • Bridget G
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2025
    There are so many people hurting and much of this stems from the need to forgive someone, or maybe even forgiving themselves. This book serves as a great reminder of the power of forgiveness.
  • rita drymiller
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2025
    This was a great read. At first it was hard and very relatable, but helped tou realize another of things about yourself and struggles. That your truly not only.

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