The Root Cause continues...The Unforgiven

I've read, once or twice, from those sage healed-in-the-know, that all illness arises from unforgiveness. I didn't buy it, at first. Then it slowly started making sense.

I was able to forgive those who seriously harmed me. I have been working on forgiving myself,which seems infinitely harder...unless I can figure out the why.

I devolved deep within

I hadn't forgiven myself for allowing my father to hurt me so...for so long. Why didn't I stop him....

It's like, the part of my self that was so tormented and abused, hadn't forgiven the older, grown up part of me that should have protected.

Hmm, guess that this is part ll of the root cause...seems more complicated . Not just one bandaid is needed, but at least two