08/12/2026
She held it for two years.
I had no idea.
And...I never saw it coming.
Two months of silence. Then one of my best friends sat across from me and told me everything she'd held and never said in three years. It felt like standing in front of an assault r***e.
She'd been holding resentment(s) against me almost since the beginning. When it happened, we'd actually talked about it — I had apologized, she had said it was fine, I thought it was over. Two years later I found out it was never over. She'd just stopped telling me the truth about it.
Suddenly, she ghosted me for two months. When we finally sat down, I understood what she'd been carrying: I had, on occasion — she said "always" — canceled plans last minute, and to her that meant I did not consider her at all.
Here's the part that still stops me cold: she knew. This wasn't a gap in information. I'd told her, more than once, in real conversations — not a vague hint dropped and hoped for. When my fibromyalgia or my depression flares, there's nothing to negotiate with. I've been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and CPTSD, and on the bad days those aren't a mood, they're a shutdown, a mental health issue, an illness — the body pulling every resource inward, language going first, then energy, then whatever version of me was supposed to show up that day or night. If I'd forced myself out anyway, she'd have had to drive, I'd have barely strung a sentence together, and I would not have been "fine." What I actually do in those moments is go to bed and try to sleep it off. You don't want me around then. That's why I canceled — not because I didn't consider her, but because my body made the decision before I got a vote.
And she had her own depression. She told me, plainly, that she understood — that she "got it." She said it was fine. And underneath those words, she was building a two-year file that ended in "inconsiderate."
That's the part I actually want to sit with. Not "she didn't know." She knew everything there was to know. Which means this was never really an information problem — it made me realize how debilitating depression and CPTSD actually are, even to the people standing closest to them, even to people carrying their own version of the same thing. Understanding a diagnosis in your head and metabolizing what it costs someone, in real time, are not the same skill.
She's not entirely wrong, by the way. There's something real for me to look at in how I schedule and how I cancel. That part I can own.
What's actually happening in the body when resentment gets stored instead of spoken
Resentment isn't a mood. It's a charge — something the nervous system logged as unresolved and never got the "all clear" to release. Every time you think of the person or the event, or when something else comes up and triggers you the body replays it like it's happening again. That's not you being dramatic. That's just what an unresolved charge does.
This is why "it's fine, don't worry about it" so rarely resolves anything — and why understanding someone isn't the same as your nervous system releasing what it logged about them. My friend didn't just say it was fine. She understood the diagnosis. She had her own depression. Her mind had every piece of information it needed to not hold this against me. And yet her body kept the file open for two years anyway, because a stored charge doesn't check in with what you know — it only responds to what got named out loud, in the moment, between you. And when I think about seeing her now, my own body already braces and knows what to do, what to expect. I can trust her to be her. I know what she's going to do.
The project
I've already forgiven her. What's left isn't forgiveness — it's a boundary I can finally see clearly: I'll check whether someone's actually okay instead of trusting that "I'm fine" closes the account. I'll ask more questions and actually hear what is not being said underneath. I know now that "fine" can sit quietly for two, 10, 20 years and come back later, fully formed, as a verdict.
What came next - deciding what happens to the friendship, and, unhooking my body's charge from her name and the event. The charge, the story I keep telling myself, the point of view I've built about the betrayal, what's actually true in it and what's just the version that lets me be right — that's all the same project. Sorting fact from armor.
She can be exactly who she is. I don't have to change her to be at peace. I can hold a boundary and still not see her. I can hold both at once: it's okay, and it's not okay. I am okay. And I'm done spending energy letting this, or her, hurt me. Not now. Not ever again.
Where this shows up in my work
This is exactly the terrain I work in with people, one-on-one — finding where an old charge is still live in the body, long after the mind has said "it's fine, we're over it," and actually helping it discharge, change the point of view, and the story the brain is telling you (and others) about it. Not by talking yourself into forgiveness. By giving the nervous system what it was never given in the moment.
The invitation
If there's a charge like this still live in you — a friend, a family member, a version of "it's fine" you don't quite believe — you don't have to sort it out alone, and you don't have to wait for the perfect apology to start. If you want help finding where it's stored and working with it directly, that's exactly what I do with clients one-on-one. [Reply to this email / here's where to find me → [email protected] or LFEnergetics.com (http://www.LFEnergetics.com) ] No pressure — the door's just open.
What to Read
Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping — this book may help you be able to see if I can fully understand forgiveness as an energetic shift, not a moral performance. - https://amzn.to/4hP6bpp
What to Listen
Tara Brach's RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) — built for the exact moment your body clenches around someone's name before your mind catches up. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zwILI6_tM
I'm still learning and growing too, along with you.
With Unconditional Love,
Rebecca
www.LFEnergetics.com
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