The affective domain is listed within Bloom's taxonomy as critical in human education, development, and healthy human behaviors (Durlak et al., 2011). This study examines empathy within the context of forgiveness to resolve lingering and painful emotions which could engender detrimental behaviors. Previous studies have shown that the act of forgiveness is a catalyst for reducing painful memories and feelings and has a wide range of human benefits (Ho et al., 2017; McCullough, 2000). The addition of spiritual-ism to forgiveness creates another level of immersion in the effectiveness of forgiveness as a practice (Pettigrove & Enright, 2023). Empathy coupled with forgiveness has also shown promise in releasing painful ruminations (Worthington & Scherer, 2004). Pro-posed here, the empathy of Christ is added to the general forgiveness process to help the Christian release hurt feelings. This enhanced forgiveness (EF), named here, suggests a novel pathway of emotional resolution of injuries through Christ's shared sufferings and understanding. A phenomenological approach is used to study the afterglow effects of EF. The study involved five formerly incarcerated Christians living in a transitional home. During the EF process, the participants meditate upon the personalized empathy of Christ upon the cross, Christ's shared feelings in suffering. This moves the participant away from a self-centered way of dealing with hurt feelings to a literature-supported, other-centered means (Wang Xu et al., 2022). This shift in orientation (empathy) is found in this study to be a solvent to the isolation found in ruminant hurt feelings and from Christian literature ("New International Version [NIV]," 2 Corinthians 1:5-7). All five previously incarcerated participants reported some levels of replacement of ruminant sore feelings from past events toward peaceful feelings with EF. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]