How do I move forward after someone has wronged me without staying bitter?
This is what Sor Juana understood deeply—that holding onto bitterness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to suffer. Moving forward doesn't mean pretending the harm didn't happen or that the person deserves immediate absolution. It means deciding what you need to reclaim your own life. Start by naming what actually happened and what you lost—clarity is the first step. Then ask yourself: what would it take for me to stop letting this control my days? Sometimes that's a conversation, sometimes it's therapy, sometimes it's simply deciding you won't organize your identity around someone else's cruelty. Sor Juana fought systems that tried to silence her, but she didn't let that fight become her entire purpose—she kept writing, kept thinking, kept living. The goal isn't to feel nothing toward the person who hurt you. It's to feel something other than rage or shame when you think about yourself. That's freedom. What would reclaiming your own narrative look like, separate from their story?