counselees to examine themselves. According to Socrates, the unexamined life is not worth living.Everyone experiences emotional hurtssome more deeply than others. But people should never allow their pain to stop them from striving for emotional health and spiritual maturity.
The challenge confronting each counselor is to help each individual come to terms with inner hurts, identify the targets of deepseated emotions, and live responsibly. In this process, the goal is not to help the individual achieve a life of painlessness but one of health, which means facing necessary pain. The last thing counselors should do is to encourage denial. Facilitate forgiveness or repentance, depending on whether counselees are victims or perpetrators of hatred. Unlike Aristotle, we believe that hatred toward people is curable. In God, all things are possible, and we need only to remind