THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF BITTERNESS

How a wound can take root.

I was wronged.

Meaning is assigned to what happened.

The offense is kept alive internally.

The mind repeatedly replays the event.

New disappointments attach to the old wound.

Pain becomes: “You owe me.”

The person is reduced to the wrong committed.

The heart seeks repayment.

The hurt becomes part of how a person sees himself or herself and tells the story of life.

Bitterness feels justified because the original wrong was real.

Bitterness Takes Root

And it affects more than one life.

But the spiral is not the end of the story.

Wherever you find yourself on this path, there is a way back. Healing begins with a single, honest step.