# Dr. Luster's November Psychology Today Blog Entries

**By Rodney Luster**

November 01, 2022 • 3 minutes
## Publication news

For November, Dr. Luster authored two blog posts for Psychology Today. Take a look here:

## On Resiliency and Forgiveness - What a series like "The Walking Dead" can teach us about ourselves.

Primary take-aways:

- Art and characters can reflect the deeper aspects of the potentials that reside within us all.
- "Wilding" is selfish behavior indulged in at the expense of others.
- Forgiving can help insulate us from the insidious effects of anxiety, depression, and even posttraumatic stress disorder.

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## When Painful Memories Haunt Us-Can we intentionally forget painful memories? And should we?

Primary take-aways:

- Eradicating and suppressing painful memories may have detrimental effects to our health.
- Memories, even painful ones, can serve to challenge our "fixed identities," which can help us grow in new ways.
- Suppression-induced forgetting, thought-stopping, and recontextualizing painful memories can change the way we remember and reduce the pain.
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