Your Signal
Insult / Hurt Feelings
11 min read
Also known as: feeling hurt · feeling wounded · chronic resentment · "look what he did to me" · "they put me down" · silent victimhood · holding a grudge that won't let go · reproachful silence · the frozen injury · the scar that is tended rather than healed.
Your Body Is Speaking
At some point, someone said something that won't go away. A look too many, a word that landed, a put-down that lodged itself inside you. You walked away, but the scene came with you. It sits on your nightstand, joins you at breakfast, surfaces in the middle of a quiet afternoon and pulls you back into a room you thought you'd left behind long ago. You replay it — again and again, in different versions. What you should have said. What they might have meant. How unfair it was. How unfair it still is.
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