An Apology Won’t Set You Free

Don’t give someone else power over your ability to move on

“Why hasn’t she apologized?” Fiona sat in my office with her head buried in her hands. “If she would just apologize, I could move on.” We’d been talking about this for months and nothing had shifted. She’d gone from hurt to angry to exhausted, and now she just wanted to be over it.

Two years earlier, Fiona had been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition …