2 Steps for Working with Resentment – with Lynn Lyons, LICSW

For many clients, letting go of resentment can be a struggle – especially when the pain of betrayal or trauma makes it feel well-earned.
So how do we help when resentment is preventing clients from moving forward and developing healthy relationships?
In the video above, Lynn Lyons LICSW will share 2 steps that can help shift a client’s burden of resentment without invalidating the pain that created it.

[captkristipaints]

Just watching this 2 minute video I WANT to have you as my therapist. There's something so inviting and comforting about your presence. Thanks so much for this insight into that pattern and some shifts that help with the processes of reactivity!!

[michellejohnson]

I love how you took back your words "get rid of" and changed it "shift". Great advice and I will be using this for sure! <3

[tonyburton]

A fine understanding of these issues..

[chinookvalley]

Thank you so much for this video. I have seen therapists who want you to come in, take their drugs, and "get over it". When one has faced something that caused PTSD and to live in fear when awake or asleep? We WANT to "get over it" more than anything else in life!! How do we get therapists to understand our anger, grief and fear?

[Latoree]

Great video, you're going to feel what your gonna feel. Thanks

[chinookvalley]

I appreciate this succinct, well-spoken, well thought-out video.

[capntar]

This brings to mind the idea that it isn't the trauma that causes the problem but the reaction to the trauma. I think this can make letting go of things seem impossible in certain severe cases, such as religious abuse or emotional incest and covert traumas that people aren't even conscious of for many years.

[genessymendoza]

I feel that when I am resentful just to think of anything else is too much work

[shahilagh]

My reaction to resentment is hoping to see this person in misery!