Book cover for Forgive to Live: How Forgiveness Can Change Your Life, 10th Anniversary Edition by Dick Tibbits

Forgive to Live

How Forgiveness Can Change Your Life, 10th Anniversary Edition

2020 Released
252 Pages
3-4 Hours
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AdventHealthPressISBN 9780996369251

Could this book save your life?

Every one of us has a grievance story a hurtful event perpetrated by someone who mattered in our lives. And for most of us, that hurt simply will not go away.

Enter forgiveness.

Unfortunately, while most of us have been taught we should forgive, we've never been shown how or why to forgive. In this revised and updated edition of Forgive to Live, Dr. Dick Tibbits demonstrates that understanding and practicing forgiveness can literally save your life!

The truth is, forgiveness does not balance the scales of justice any more than vengeance does. But a failure or inability to forgive creates an inner anger sometimes observable, but oftentimes unseen that affects our emotional, spiritual and physical well-being, from broken relationships and cynicism that lead to isolation, to health issues that lead to a shortened life expectancy.

Using his years of study in the behavioral sciences, observation of patients and his own published scientific study, Dr. Tibbits not only provides practical advice on anger management and, but also case studies, assessment tests and other interactive techniques to help you learn and live honest-to-goodness forgiveness. As he provocatively shows, forgiveness is the only way to get your life back and to keep your past from destroying your future goal-setting.

Anger kills...every day...through a host of ailments such as depression, stress, broken relationships and heart disease. Yet its victims often never know what hit them.

Though there's no quick fix for this silent killer, Dr. Dick Tibbits' groundbreaking research reveals a solution: forgiveness.

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, this revised and updated edition of Dick Tibbits' powerful book shows you how to forgive insight by insight, step by step in a workable plan that can effectively reduce your anger, improve your health and put you in charge of your life again, no matter how deep your hurts.

In this book you will:

  • Come to a new understanding of what causes you pain.
  • Discover what forgiveness does and doesn't mean.
  • Take steps to reframe your grievance story (yes, you have one).
  • Stop giving control of your life to people from your past.
  • Understand the difference between guilt and shame.
  • Get your life and maybe even your health back.
  • Find the freedom, peace, and strength you've never had.

By learning the 10 Principles of Forgiveness you'll come to realize, as thousands of others have, that Forgive to Live is not just a dream it's a way of life that can actually save your life!

Dick Tibbits

Dick Tibbits, DMin has a doctoral degree in psychotherapy from Andover-Newton in Boston. Dick is an ordained minister, a licensed professional mental health counselor, a clinical pastoral educator, and a hospital administrator. As a hospital administrator, he has been a VP for both Operations and Human Resources, as well as a COO and CEO. Currently Dick is a performance coach to some of the world's premier motorsports racers. During his career, Dick pastored in New England, then became an educator and hospital administrator at Kettering Medical Center, Florida Hospital (now AdventHealth) Orlando, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and Florida Hospital (now AdventHealth) Tampa. Dick conducted original research on forgiveness and heart disease, which he presented at the National Institutes of Health, Mayo Clinic, and Harvard, Duke, Loma Linda, and Stanford Universities. He was a featured speaker at the International Conference on Stress and is the author of Forgive to Live: How Forgiveness Can Save Your Life, currently printed in eight languages. His latest work on The Stress Recovery Effect is written from his wealth of experience working with those who perform in extreme stress situations. Both by experience and profession, Dick is a qualified writer and a nationally sought-after speaker on using stress to improve performance and life satisfaction.

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