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We’ve All Been Stabbed in the Heart

When you keep twisting the knife, the wound never heals

Kimberly Fosu
4 min readSep 15, 2021

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Every time you replay the hurt in your mind, you twist the knife a little more. (Photo: OpenClipart-Vectors)

If you’ve been living life the best way you can, chances are you’ve gotten hurt somewhere along the way. A parent abandons you or even abuses you and taints your view of life. A spouse or partner breaks your heart to pieces and makes you afraid to open your heart again. A friend stabs you in the back and betrays your trust. A stranger assaults you and you’re livid. You lose a loved one and you don’t know how to move on.

Getting hurt is a painful part of life and sometimes we replay the experience over and over again in our minds. It’s like being stabbed in the back, but the knife is still there. Every time we replay the hurt in our minds, we twist the knife a little more.

When you keep twisting the knife and digging in the wound, the pain never goes away and the wound never heals.

This happens to most of us.

After we’ve been hurt, we go through life never really pulling the knife out of us and constantly twisting it, trying to understand what has happened.

Every time you do that, you feel the same way you felt when you first got hurt.

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Kimberly Fosu
Kimberly Fosu

Written by Kimberly Fosu

Purpose coach focused on spirituality, faith, and inspiration.

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