Megan Visser, a 34-year-old marketing manager, used to aim for 10,000 steps a day. “It actually added more stress to my day when I kept seeing that I wasn’t hitting my target, day after day,” she told The Epoch Times.

For some people, those memories stay painfully vivid—the scene, the words, the look on someone’s face. They linger like fresh wounds, making self-forgiveness feel out of reach for years.