I Just Can't Forgive That!: Get Your Life Back After Being Hurt Hardcover – November 29, 2025

You're stuck at 25 mph in the fast lane while everyone else speeds past. You're functionally present but mentally absent, replaying what they did over and over.You tell yourself you just can't forgive that.But here's what nobody tells you: staying angry is costing you everything.Your sleep. Your peace. Your relationships. Your ability to feel joy about anything. You're paying a price every single day while the person who hurt you has moved on with their life.This book isn't going to tell you that what happened to you was okay. It wasn't. It's not going to tell you that you should trust people who've proven themselves untrustworthy. You shouldn't.What this book will show you is how to reclaim your life without staying imprisoned by what someone else did to you. You'll learn the difference between walls that isolate and boundaries that protect. You'll discover practical tools to break the anger cycles keeping you stuck. And you'll find a path forward that doesn't require the person who hurt you to participate at all.Forgiveness isn't about them. It's about you.It's about getting your life back. Words from readers"The principles in this book didn’t just teach me about forgiveness—they reopened the door to communication with my sister and changed my life, and my family’s."- Jenny, Papillion, Nebraska"I have read a lot of books about boundaries, and anger, and forgiveness but I never read a book that connected those three in a way that makes incredible sense. If you read this book with a highlighter, you’re gonna have highlights on every page. One of my favorite quotes from the book is, “There’s a difference between an anger that protects and motivate you, and anger that imprisons and exhaust you.” Chapter 4 is the best stuff I’ve ever read on boundaries."- Pastor Roger Graber About the AuthorKeith West knows what it's like to be stuck in anger—not just from observing and helping others, but from his own difficult journey through hurt and forgiveness. After walking through his own process of healing, he's spent fifteen years studying forgiveness and sitting with hundreds of people who said, "I just can't forgive that”—and then watched them discover they could.Keith doesn't offer Christian clichés or easy answers. He offers honest, practical tools that work whether you're deeply religious or not religious at all. His approach to forgiveness is simple. It's about getting your own life back.After serving as a pastor at Reality Church in Papillion, Nebraska, Keith felt called to focus his efforts on building a ministry dedicated to forgiveness and healing. I Just Can't Forgive That is his first book, written for anyone exhausted by anger and ready for freedom… and for the pastors, counselors, and friends walking alongside them.Keith lives in Bellevue, Nebraska, with his wife, Andrea, their six children, and grandchildren. Read more