Forgiveness is often hard. It's not always possible. But it can begin a process of healing Posted SatSaturday 13 updated SunSunday 14 FebFebruary 2021 at 9:58pm Daniel and Leila Abdallah have chosen to forgive the driver who hit and killed three of their children. ( Print text only Cancel As a clinical psychologist who works with couples, Everett Worthington was used to talking a lot about forgiveness. But it wasn't until there were two sudden deaths in the Virginia-based psychologist's family that he began to develop a profound understanding of his life's work firsthand. "I had started doing research on how to help people forgive and about what forgiveness is," he tells RN's Sunday Extra.