How do we forgive ourselves for our mistakes?

Something stopped me in my tracks today.

Something stopped me in my tracks today.

I was brooding, ruminating over something I’d said — something I’d misjudged. Something that I shouldn’t have done. A ‘rookie error’: something that it’s easy for me to beat myself up about. To say to myself that I should’ve known better, and to feel it, and to believe it because — in the cold light of day, away f…