Interview With a 60-Year-Old Sober Person: Chris Wells

We ask that the adult child keep an open mind and consider that God has already forgiven the person. God is waiting for the adult child’s acceptance of such a blessing. We realize that we are practicing the concept of self-forgiveness when we hear ourselves talking about being gentle with ourselves.

According to Buddhist principles, in seeing ourselves, our emotions and thoughts, exactly as they are right now, and in not trying to make them go away or improve or change them, we have the opportunity to befriend ourselves and cease suffering. This no-escape witnessing, when we can do it with “precision and gentleness” (the gentleness is key), ho