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Bitterness comes from intense emotional pain and injury that makes a person freeze in the place of hurt and not be able to move on from it. Bitterness can feel worse than anger because we are left feeling helpless. Referred to as ’embitterment’ in psychology circles, bitterness happens when you feel there is no action left to take because everything is out of your control.

We have stereotypes of bitterness which unfairly focus on older women told in cultures because of the regrets they may have.  These stories are told as a cautionary tales so that we do not end up in the same way but I feel like the stories are not honest or as relevant as they could be because of how much African society has changed.

Emotional Pain and thus bitterness are human experiences. I find however because men have such few places to process their sadness, betrayal and pain they have become vulnerable to an industry that has commodified their bitterness and further imprisons them with the fear of more pain and operating in a destructive way to themselves, those that care for them or who could potentially care for them. 

Listen on to find out about healing bitterness and moving past the injustices life has dealt.