Bitterness: An Emotional Cage
Bitterness can be a poison to the soul-Author
Excerpt from my book “ Don’t Be Bitter Be Better ”
Some injuries that happen to the soul cannot be automatically explained. We all travel on the journey of life and most start hopefully with parents that do the best they can with the tools they have.
While many come into an environment where broken pieces are everywhere, fractured hearts and mean spirits are the norm. No one can tell you how to mend when you are the one who has been emotionally broken.
What is a child to do when parents do not know how to parent? I have had many cases in my career like this. The friendly fire of emotional abuse that comes from a parent or someone who is supposed to have your best interest at heart is devastating.
There is no one-size-fits-all to healing from bitterness. It is a deadly poison to the soul. It wraps itself around your heart to squeeze anything that is left in a person. It changes one’s countenance and steals your smile.
Bitterness, the goal is to destroy everything in its wake. It’s relentless, mean and unmerciful. It does not care about your age, gender, religious affiliation or wealth it wants you annihilated.
We are human we fall in many ways, but when you intentionally are ruthless and bring harm to the core of someone’s soul that is a different kind of evil.
As a therapist I try to instruct those clients who come to me broken and battered from bitterness I let them know there is a way out.
I dare them to come out of the emotional dungeon they are in. I remind them that no one can bind them if they know they are free. I encourage them not to stay in an emotional cage when the one who put them there is walking around free or passed away.
Emotional healing takes time, and each person is impacted differently. Give yourself room to heal and give others around you space to watch you heal.
Healing is a journey, not a destination.
Be well
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