14/02/2026
Karma Is Not a Weapon.
I work in healing. That means I sit with stories that most people only see as headlines.
I have held women who escaped domestic violence. I have listened to survivors of sexual abuse. I have supported families shattered by su***de. I have spoken with people who have fled countries to survive, and I have walked beside those financially destroyed by betrayal or collapse.
When you sit with that much pain, language starts to matter, and there is one word I struggle with.
Karma.
I see it thrown around online so casually.
“They’re getting their karma.”
“It’s karma.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
Every time, I find myself asking one simple question:
What did the original victim do?
Are we saying the child deserved abuse?
The woman deserved violence?
The man deserved murder?
The grieving mother deserved to bury her son?
If we truly believe karma means action and consequence, then whose action are we referring to?
Because karma, in its purest sense, belongs to the one who acts.
If someone chooses harm, the consequence belongs to them.
It does not retroactively justify the suffering of the one they harmed.
Somewhere along the way, “karma” became a spiritual version of victim-blaming. A neat little word we use when we do not want to sit with the discomfort of randomness, cruelty, or free will. I cannot support that. Not as a healer. Not as a woman who has lived trauma. Not as a human being.
There are moments in life that are not cosmic justice. Sometimes something terrible happens because someone made a terrible choice. Sometimes we cross paths with someone drowning in their own unhealed wounds, addiction, rage, or darkness. Sometimes we simply collide with another person’s unresolved karma, and sometimes, if I am completely honest, life hiccups. Energy collides. Circumstances intersect. Free will moves, and the result is painful.
Not everything in life is orchestrated, not everything is deserved. Not everything carries a neat spiritual explanation.
The phrase “everything happens for a reason” may comfort the observer. But it can silence the person who is bleeding.
When someone is shattered, they do not need philosophy.
They need presence. They need compassion.
They need accountability for what was done to them.
Before typing the word karma under someone’s tragedy, I invite people to pause.
Ask yourself:
Am I offering understanding?
Or am I protecting myself from feeling uncomfortable?
Because there is always an original victim.
And healing requires honesty.
Karma, to me, is not a weapon.
It is not a justification.
It is not an excuse.
It is action and consequence.
And we must be mindful whose action we are truly speaking about.
Love & Light,
Lisa A – Soul Guide & Oracle of the Awakening.
❤️🙏🕊️
