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When forgiveness becomes a trap: what I learned interviewing a Christian theologian and a Buddhist teacher about healing from trauma

I sat across from Dr. Whitmore in a sunlit office in Durham, North Carolina, on a Tuesday afternoon in October. He’s a Jesuit priest and clinical psychologist who has spent thirty years working with trauma survivors in both pastoral and therapeutic settings. Behind him, shelves lined with books on Christology, trauma theory, and medieval mysticism. He was waiting for my question about forgiveness and PTSD, and I could see he knew exactly where this conversation was going to hurt.

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