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Aug 1, 2023 · The problem with resentment is that it’s something we hold within ourselves. In that sense, it often ends up impacting us more than it does the offender. Ahead, we’re covering common reasons why you can’t let go of resentment, how this can impact you over the long term, and effective ways to process and assuage this complicated emotion.
- Wendy Rose Gould
May 15, 2024 · Resentment is an emotional reaction to mistreatment and can be helped with healthy coping strategies, forgiveness, empathy, self-compassion and gratitude.
- Jack Nollan
- Acknowledge and accept your resentment. Honesty is the first step toward finding your release from resentment. You need to acknowledge what you’re feeling for what it is.
- Identify what you can control in the situation. You are not responsible for the wrong actions of other people. However, we are responsible for how we respond to those actions and what decisions we make.
- Take action on what you can control. Once you identify what you can control, you can now choose to take action on it. Sarah might want to confront her mother about how badly she’s been treated.
- Let go of that which you cannot control. There will come a time when you are done wrong with no recourse, where it is all out of your control. In those times, you have to let go of the things that you cannot control and that you may never get closure for.
Jan 17, 2017 · Resentments are negative feelings, basically ill will, toward someone or something that emanates from the past. Resentment is the re-experiencing of past injustices — real or perceived — and the...
- Dan Mager MSW
Jun 28, 2018 · Resentment is a noxious emotion that can exist in sublimated form as a result of being subjected to inferiorization, stigmazation, or violence. In its active form, resentment can be a forceful...
Dec 19, 2018 · Where anger (when directed at others) is an aggressive exertion of power to get someone to back off or submit to what you want (either in reality or in your imagination ), resentment is a...
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Jul 22, 2020 · Here, I want us to go deeper into what happens to your brain and emotional system when the emotion youre feeling and identifying with is resentment. Resentment can be harmful, or it can be...
