Our emotional wounds unwittingly echo the pain of our past and act as guides leading us to those places within ourselves that need healing. These wounds cause us to resonate with people who have similar or matching unhealed emotional issues. Attaching us to these people are energetic connectors I think of as karmic cords. There is a sense of destiny at work here: these karmic cords — cords of fate — bring people into our lives who are tailor-made to bring us the spiritual experiences we need to complete ourselves.
— Debbie Ford, Spiritual Divorce