You carry a great deal of pain around with you, Plum. Can you envision ever letting it go?” “You can’t let go of pain. It’s not a balloon that can float into the sky.” “Okay, but imagine for a minute that it is. You put your pain into a balloon and you let go of it. It floats away. How do you feel?” If I let go of my pain, there would be a hole inside me that was so vast I would cease to exist. I would be the balloon floating into the sky, not the other way around. There would be nothing pulling me down, nothing keeping my feet on the ground. My pain was my gravity. “Without my pain, I
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