Resentment Free

Here’s an image that has never left me: holding a resentment is like drinking a little poison every day and expecting the other person to die. Sit with that for a second — it’s absurd. And yet almost all of us are doing exactly that, right now, carrying resentments toward people, places, and things. Some of those resentments we know about. Many more we don’t — they run quietly in the background, and they color everything.

Jacqueline and I have come to believe that to truly break free, you have to become resentment free. Not resentment-managed. Not resentment-justified. Free.

Why do we hold onto them — and what do we secretly think we’re getting in return? What is it actually costing us to carry them? And how do we finally let them go — the ones we know about, and the ones we don’t?

All of this and more in the next hour.