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EPISODE · May 12, 2025 · 47 MIN

What Science Actually Shows About Forgiveness - Dr. Fred Luskin

from The Mature Male · host Wes Lambert

Dr. Fred Luskin is a senior consultant at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, and author of Forgive for Good — one of the most rigorously researched books on forgiveness ever written.Most men either avoid forgiveness entirely or confuse it with weakness, excusing bad behavior, or pretending something didn't matter. All three are wrong. Dr. Fred Luskin has run clinical forgiveness studies for decades, and what the data shows about what forgiveness actually is — and what it does to the men who practice it — is nothing like what most people think.Expect to learn what forgiveness actually is according to clinical research versus what most people assume, why holding a grievance is a form of ongoing self-harm that goes well beyond mental health, what the Stanford Forgiveness Studies found about men specifically, the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation and why conflating them stops men from healing, how resentment changes the body and not just the mind, why the men who struggle most with forgiveness are often the ones who need it most, the specific evidence-based steps Dr. Luskin uses to teach forgiveness and much more...-Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

Dr. Fred Luskin is a senior consultant at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, and author of Forgive for Good — one of the most rigorously researched books on forgiveness ever written.Most men either avoid forgiveness entirely or confuse it with weakness, excusing bad behavior, or pretending something didn't matter. All three are wrong. Dr. Fred Luskin has run clinical forgiveness studies for decades, and what the data shows about what forgiveness actually is — and what it does to the men who practice it — is nothing like what most people think.Expect to learn what forgiveness actually is according to clinical research versus what most people assume, why holding a grievance is a form of ongoing self-harm that goes well beyond mental health, what the Stanford Forgiveness Studies found about men specifically, the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation and why conflating them stops men from healing, how resentment changes the body and not just the mind, why the men who struggle most with forgiveness are often the ones who need it most, the specific evidence-based steps Dr. Luskin uses to teach forgiveness and much more...-Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

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Dr. Fred Luskin is a senior consultant at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, and author of Forgive for Good — one of the most rigorously researched books on forgiveness ever written.Most men either avoid forgiveness...

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