Amanda’s description of her experience with her particular difficulty is revealing. “To begin with,” she said, “it was like a solid mass of rock. It was huge. It was so solid that you couldn’t get around it, but then it shrank to a small stone. It was still stone, but it was small. It’s really good. Because I think probably I have been pushing the issue away, sort of sitting on it and not letting it come up fully to the surface. I haven’t allowed it before to simply be here. I thought it would just overwhelm me. It was too much to let in, and so my natural reaction would have been just to
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