Some of you made the valid point that there is a danger that forgiveness might turn into permission to relapse. I spent some time thinking about what this meant to me, as forgiveness and acceptance are turning out to be very important to me.
I just did my August review (I am a nut about recording how I am doing on things that are important to me). In August I abstained from alcohol for 39% of the days (if you asked me before I checked the data I would have guessed 15%). In July, when I wasn't forgiving myself, this was 16% of the days. I think that for me, as long as that number keeps going up then I will be very happy.
Anyway, that's just me and I thought that I'd share.
KP