From the course: Arianna Huffington's Thrive 04: Facing Challenges with Gratitude and Forgiveness

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Thrive assignment: Practicing forgiveness

Thrive assignment: Practicing forgiveness

- We talked about our obnoxious roommate. Think of one thing, recently, that your obnoxious roommate has been saying to you. - A lot of times she judges me for having an emotion, or an emotional reaction to something. Because, as you say, I like to escalate things, and I will make it much bigger of a deal than it needs to be. And, often, after that, I'll beat myself up about it, and the obnoxious roommate will say, "Well, how could you go and do that again? "You know so much better than that." So I think that's something that I've been struggling with, and to also give myself a break in that sense. - So, let's talk about a couple of things that we can all do when the obnoxious roommate comes up and says, sometimes, really extreme, crazy things. One of the things that I have found helps tremendously is humor, just laughing at her, saying... You know, like you would laugh at somebody who came up to you and said something so preposterous. Another one that I love is to write a letter…

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