Forgive on Your Terms: A Psychological and Ancestral Guide to Healing Resentment, Setting Boundaries, and Blooming Again. - Softcover

Román, Dra. Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798991119948

Publisher: Armonia Emocional, 2026

Synopsis

Have you been pressured to “forgive and forget” while your body insists that something is unjust, rushed, or unsafe?

Forcing a forgiveness your nervous system has not processed is not healing. It is pseudo-forgiveness—a trap that drains your body budget and keeps your alarm system under siege.

Over this twelve-week journey, Dra. Carmen Román teaches you to prepare your body and mind so that healing can emerge with dignity, with boundaries, and at your own pace. Bringing contemporary neurobiology together with pre-Hispanic wisdom:

• You will learn to restore your vital energy (tonalli) and interrupt the wear of chronic stress.
• You will practice setting boundaries within your teocalli—your inner temple—without guilt or remorse.
• You will recognize yourself honestly (iximati) and pinpoint what you need to move forward with the Forgiveness Cultivation Inventory (ICP).
• You will explore the weight of inherited pain and of the family loyalties that operate without ever being named.
• You will rewrite your story through resilience, drawing on applied neuroscience, therapeutic writing, and somatic practice.

Your pain is an unalterable fact. The story of your destiny belongs entirely to you.

About this title

About the Authors

Dra. Carmen Román is a leading clinical psychologist, speaker, and writer with more than 34 years of experience supporting latino and immigrant communities through trauma, resilience, and family healing. She is the creator and host of the acclaimed podcasts Emotions in HarmonyⓇ and Armonia EmocionalⓇ. Her integrative approach bridges Western nervous-system science with the legacy of her own Indigenous ancestors from Jalisco, Mexico, offering a therapeutic paradigm unlike anything else in contemporary personal-development literature.

Dra. Laura Beatriz Ramos Herrera is a humanistic psychotherapist with a Gestalt approach and a doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy. She specializes in dance and movement therapy, dream work, and therapeutic work with women. She is the author of four books: La Gestalt: un encuentro entre humanos (Gestalt: An Encounter Between Humans), Mujeres que crecen con mujeres: el manual de la bruja (Women Who Grow With Women: The Witch's Manual), Concentración para la salud (Concentration for Health), and Aromaterapia para terapeutas (Aromatherapy for Therapists). Furthermore, she currently teaches in the master's program in human accompaniment at Instituto Kintu.

Edition details

• Publisher: Armonia Emocional
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798991119948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167
• Editor: Ramos Herrera Dra. Laura Beatriz