Is it wrong to feel good when someone "gets their karma?"

Q: Why does seeing someone who’s wronged us experience their bad karma feel good?

Because the divine principle of justice is alive in you.

Just like what I mentioned above about contraction and expansion—justice is also a divine function. It feels good because there's a deep, human, and spiritual longing to see harmony restored in the chaos. To see balance return.

It can feel vindicating.

I went through a long, painful chapter with my mom. I actually just got interviewed on the codependent millennial podcast where I shared the full story—four years as her caretaker, navigating codependency, enmeshment, alcoholic dementia, and a lifetime of trauma. I'll be sure to share the link when it gets published!

But somewhere inside that mess... I also had a spiritual awakening.

Let me tell you a story. And I already know some people won’t like it. When I first shared this story on instagram, people said, “That’s not a very yogic thing to say.”

But I’m gonna say it anyway.

In October 2020, my mom was placed in memory care. Between then and March 2021—before I went fully no-contact—she left me a voicemail one night.

She sounded scared.

She said, “There’s a man who keeps coming into my room at night. I don’t know what to do. I’m so scared.” She was trying to get me to help her. In reality, it was likely just someone who lived in the memory care facility that was looking for their room.

But as I listened, I felt something rise in me—not pity, but clarity.

Because when I was a kid, she would come into my room at night and sit in the dark, silently watching me sleep with dead, alcoholic eyes. Sometimes she would even get in bed with me. It was terrifying. It was a complete violation of my space and my boundaries.

So when I heard that message—when she said she didn’t feel safe, that someone was coming into her space without permission—I thought:

“Oh yeah? And how does it feel?”

Now... I didn’t say anything to her.

She had dementia. There would’ve been no point.

But in that moment, I felt something shift in me. A part of me that had waited so long to feel seen—finally felt seen. Not by her. By the arc of justice itself.

And yeah, when I posted about it years ago, people said, “That’s not very yogic.”

But honestly? Can't I have just one month to feel the satisfying vindication that my abuser got a taste of what she put me through?

You know, some people have clearly never experienced a redemption arc.

When you’ve been that deep in suffering—when your entire nervous system has been shaped by someone else’s harm—it makes complete sense to feel a moment of relief when the universe moves toward balance.

It's not bitterness. It's justice.

Also... if this story spoke to you... you might like my talk about anger on patreon.

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