Episode 38
Have you ever felt like you finally found the one—only to have it unravel without warning?
In this deeply emotional and insightful episode, we explore the heartbreak of what seemed like a flawless connection that ended abruptly. If you’ve ever held onto the dream of the “perfect relationship” and felt blindsided when it crumbled, this episode offers a profound journey inward. Using the transformative method of The Work by Byron Katie, we challenge the painful belief: “We were absolutely perfectly matched.”
Discover how questioning your thoughts can unravel emotional pain and confusion after unexpected heartbreak.
Learn how seemingly “perfect” connections can mask deeper incompatibilities we don’t initially notice.
Gain a powerful new perspective that shifts the focus from needing external intimacy to cultivating a profound inner connection.
Listen now to witness how letting go of a single thought can bring emotional relief and deep clarity in the face of love lost.
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Client: [00:00:00] Um, I met the perfect man. We fell in love, had, don’t, don’t hold this against me, three dates, but in that time, over the course of however long, uh, and we weren’t intimate, but we were absolutely perfectly matched. Every single box was ticked, every experience was just a continual reaffirmation. This is wonderful.
And then
Todd: welcome to Wiggle Room, a podcast where we start with stress and look for ways to turn it around. And we use something called the work of Byron Katie. If you’ve never heard of this, this is a simple way of identifying the stress, uh, the stressful thoughts in any particular situation, and questioning those thoughts.
When you question the thoughts that you’re having in a particularly [00:01:00] stressful situation, you can start to see that situation from new angles and in different ways. And this can be very. Amazing in terms of how you experience the situation. I’m Todd Smith and on the program today, a participant does the work on a situation where she was, I.
Looked like coming together with a new partner. Looked like something was going to really work out, and she was really excited. And then he called it off very early on. And so we worked the, the stressful thought. We questioned her stressful thought. I. We were absolutely perfectly matched, and that was the, the, the story that she was holding onto.
So listen, as she does her work and starts to loosen that thought a little bit, and, um, I think you’ll find it very interesting. Then I’m gonna read from my newsletter, my most recent newsletter, the intimacy trap, like, um, [00:02:00] basically how we get attached to intimacy and how it can sometimes be a distraction rather than something, uh, valuable.
So let’s dive into the work of Byron Katie together, A simple, powerful way to question what you think, and we’ll start with the recording from the open session. And as always, I keep these recordings, un recordings unedited, so that you can experience exactly how it is to do their work.
Client: Shall I just tell you my little, my little teeny weenie story?
Todd: Yeah, let’s hear it.
Client: Um, I met the perfect man. We fell in love, had, don’t, don’t hold this against me, three dates. But in that time, over the course of however long, uh, and we weren’t intimate, but we were absolutely perfectly matched. Every [00:03:00] single box was ticked, every experience was just a continual reaffirmation.
This is. Wonderful. And then seemingly out of the blue, something happened that I really didn’t understand what happened. He came over for, uh, an evening gathering and on the basis of something he said, you know, this isn’t gonna work for me. And. That was painful. But what made it even more painful was his reasons as lovingly as he gave them, and as much as he tried to be clear, were like, what are you talking about?
This isn’t me. This isn’t anything that’s happened. I have no idea. So. Um, I am feeling much better. I’ve been doing a ton of work. It’s been a few weeks. Um, but even this morning I was crying and so when I [00:04:00] start talking about it, sometimes I start crying again. So there’s some stressful thoughts there about, uh, uh, I’m not even sure what all they are having to do with, I’m not okay if this happens.
Uh, I need this. He shouldn’t have, there’s a bunch of them. Mm-hmm. And, uh, it’s been quite painful, quite painful. I’m, I’m not a young woman. I’m 64. I’ve never been married, and there’s a kind of a story that that’s what I want and I. Can’t I have not yet found that. And you know, just one disappointment after another.
And this one seemed particularly difficult because. So much better quality of a person and a match than anything [00:05:00] I’ve experienced before. You know, I’ve met people and connected with them and it’s been maybe, uh, but this was wonderful. Such a good match, so enough story.
Todd: Okay. Well that could actually be a good place to start is, you know, we were absolutely perfectly matched and we could just.
Jump right in.
Client: It just, yeah, it just feels not okay. You know? It’s like I lost something. Yeah. And, and I didn’t, I didn’t do it. There was nothing I could have done differently.
Todd: Yeah. Yeah. So you were absolutely perfectly matched. Is it true? I mean, maybe
Client: there was something I could have done differently, but I didn’t.
So whatever w might have been, obviously it was, it’s, yeah, we were perfectly matched and, yeah. Sorry.
Todd: Okay, so is that true? That’s, that’s your experience, but is that true? [00:06:00]
Client: Yeah.
Todd: Okay.
Client: Yep.
Todd: And can you absolutely know that you were absolutely perfectly matched?
Client: No.
Todd: Okay. So how do you react? What happens when you believe this thought that you were absolutely perfectly matched
Client: When before.
Before he said no. My reaction was peaceful, felt fine. Mm-hmm. Afterwards. Um, I feel hurt, broken, wounded, you know, like something has been taken. Yeah. Something precious.
Todd: This thought makes, that, makes that even more precious. So the loss is even more strong. When you’re thinking we were absolutely perfectly matched.
Yeah. And then he says, [00:07:00] this is not going to work for me. That’s, there’s such a discrepancy there. It’s such a
Client: Yeah,
Todd: it’s a fall. Yeah. Yeah.
Client: Yeah. And, and as I say, out of the blue, there was no argument, right? There was no conflict, there was no event just. Bam. You know? Yeah. So obviously the perfect experience because it couldn’t have been any worse.
Todd: Yeah.
So when you think that you were absolutely perfectly matched, what are the images you see?
Client: Memories of the chats on the phone, the texts and, and the time we spent together. That was easy, happy, calm, [00:08:00] you know, just like home. Yeah.
Todd: And when you project that, even when, even before the breakup, but also afterwards when you project that we were absolutely perfectly matched into the future. What do you see?
Client: You mean like my fantasy of what the relationship was going to be? Yes. Um, a journey. Mutual journey with I’m sure discoveries and challenges and opportunities and growth and stumbles, but lots of peace and joy, right? And pleasure.
Todd: So that’s what the mind sees when it thinks we were absolutely perfectly matched.
It’s got joy, it’s got peace, it’s got pleasure. It’s got all the [00:09:00] goodness all there. That fan fantasy future. Yeah. And then when he says, it’s not gonna work for me, it all just gets taken away. Right? Yes. There’s not just one person getting taken away. It’s a whole world getting taken away.
Client: That’s true.
Todd: From the mind’s point of view.
Client: Yeah. Yeah.
Todd: So then. Um, how, what are the emotions you feel, you may have said this already, but what are the emotions you feel when you think we were absolutely perfectly matched and he has saying it’s not gonna work.
Client: Confusion, sorrow. You know, I mean, every version of sorrow, grief, bereft, bereavement, um, fear, um.
I would say predominantly [00:10:00] confusion. Mm, yeah. Confusion and sorrow.
Todd: Yep. And then
Client: a little, a little anger. Not a lot, but a. Got it. What’s wrong with you? Right,
Todd: right. Which is kind of, which leads me to the next question. How do you treat him, at least in your mind, when you think we were so perfectly matched and he’s saying it’s not gonna work?
Client: Well, there’s some wanting to beg for explanation.
I mean, intellectually I know, I know. Sure, but you know, please what, explain why,
and
I’m not so consciously aware of this, but I’m pretty confident that there’s a level of [00:11:00] change. Change your mind. Wake up.
Todd: Don’t you see, we were absolutely perfectly matched, right? It’s like,
Client: yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, I, I know this is a little more story, but the reasons that he gave were contradicting things.
He’d already said that were good, that were fine. You know, we’d specifically, no, not anymore. And he didn’t even say. I changed my mind or I realized nothing. So frustration and, um, terms of treating him, um, some demanding energy. Like, you know, explain this, or at least admit, you know, that, um, you did, you did [00:12:00] change your mind, you weren’t.
Fully clear. When you previously said what you said and these things that you said you wanted, you now are saying you don’t want, and that’s not fair.
Todd: Right, right. It’s wrong.
Client: Dammit. Stop that.
Todd: Yeah, I love that you brought that in. It’s not fair. That’s, that’s the feeling like you were doing, you were going in this direction and I could see it.
And now you’re saying this like you changed the rules in the middle. Hey, what’s, what’s going on?
Client: Yeah,
Todd: yeah,
Client: yeah. And this is the second time in my life someone has said, this is for keeps, or, you know, till death do us part, even at an early stage, like this is what I’m after, this is what I want, this is how I feel.
And then. So more story.
Todd: Enough. Okay. And then lastly, how do you treat yourself when you think that we were absolutely perfectly matched? And he’s saying it’s not [00:13:00] gonna work.
Client: I’m not sure. Um, I’m not, I’m not really sure. I’m, I’m, my, my, my mind is wanting to get intellectual about understanding the question.
Um, I’m willing to sit with that for a second and see, um, how I treat myself. What occurs to me is I feel sorry for myself.
Yeah. Maybe I, maybe I pity myself and, you know, some extrapolations of, um, a despair about myself or my. My future, my, you know what, what I can have. Yeah.
Okay. So.[00:14:00]
Todd: So these are all the flavors of reaction. We’ve looked quite a few here. Um, it seems like an amazingly good thought. We’re absolutely perfectly matched, but given the situation of him saying it isn’t gonna work, it becomes an extremely stressful thought. And, um, and, and we’ve seen the reactions.
Client: Yeah.
Todd: Who would you be when he says, when and after he says, this isn’t going to work for me?
If you didn’t have this, this story that we’re absolutely perfectly matched, who would you be?
Client: Oh, interesting. I’d just be.
I just be, I don’t know.
Todd: Yeah. [00:15:00] This, this thought absolutely perfectly matched is what amps up the reaction. Amps up the feeling of loss because it’s such a, it was so good and now it’s not, you know, like it’s just, the contrast is so big just. Just explode
Client: count on my life for drama.
Todd: Hmm. Yeah. This thought brings drama.
That’s exactly it. This thought, and without the thought, it’s kind of boring in a way. It’s like, oh, okay. That didn’t work out. But in the absence of drama, there is also an absence of of that suffering as well. That’s all. Yeah. So look at him. He’s telling you it’s not gonna work for you, for him, rather.
What do you see [00:16:00] when you think, if you don’t have the thought that we’re absolutely perfectly matched, what do you see?
Client: Oh.
Somebody. I don’t know, actually. I don’t know this guy.
You know, I don’t know where that came from and it doesn’t match anything. I thought. I didn’t know. So who are you?
Yeah.
Todd: Yeah.
So having seen the, the effect of this thought on your experience, let’s play with, with some turnarounds. Um, I just,
Client: I just be, before you do that, I just, [00:17:00] I’m a little bit struggling with this last question because there’s such a belief that I did know him. That, you know, part of me feels like I do know you and, and I love seeing Don’s nodding his head because it reinforces my sense.
I’m right. See,
and I, and I know it’s out of love, Don, and I’m very grateful and maybe you’ve had this happen, but you know what I’m saying? It’s like, wait, wait. This thing that I know and love. What happened? Where is it? And so there’s this bigger picture of this thing that I think I know and, and really believe and feel like, yeah, this is, we know each other here, there’s something else that’s new.
And again, you know, fit to together. Right? So when I [00:18:00] say I don’t know you, it’s a, it’s a. It’s an, I don’t know, you and I know you.
Todd: Mm-hmm.
Client: But they’re not, they’re in conflict.
Todd: Right. Which is where you were saying your main emotion was confusion.
Client: Yes, yes. Yeah.
Todd: Right. So
Client: you were gonna say turnarounds.
Todd: So let’s play with some turnarounds.
The, the statement originally was we were absolutely perfectly matched. So what’s an opposite of that?
Client: We’re never matched. We’re never
Todd: matched. Okay? So this is no way to, to your belief, your experience, everything. And it takes a lot of openness to, to even consider it. But let’s, let’s hold it as a new PO possibility.
How is it that you weren’t actually perfectly matched, even though it felt like you were going to [00:19:00] be,
Client: well, the obvious that he closed the door, um, and that, that whole experience, his whole thing didn’t make sense to me. Um, this is. This is a weird one and I almost don’t wanna say it, but, um, because it’s been something I’ve been aware of, I learned, uh, we had a conversation.
As I said, we weren’t intimate, but we, you know, we’re very, very close and loving, and it was clear that we were aiming for that kind of connection. And so we talked about. Uh, our, our sexual health and he [00:20:00] had, um, a history of, um, one of them, uh, not aids, herpes, I guess, that, uh, can kind of subside so you don’t have breakouts and it’s not a, a, a consideration, but you know.
That was there, and I never imagined myself connecting with someone who had any diseases of any kind. Okay.
Todd: So this is just one data point, but it is a really good. It’s like a, it’s an anomaly in the theory. The theory is we’re absolutely perfectly matched, and here is a data point that that doesn’t, you know, that doesn’t
Client: perfectly, it’s, it’s right.
It’s, it’s very tiny. But,
Todd: but, and that’s, that’s what, you know, like, I, I look for a wiggle room. [00:21:00] Right? That’s what this is just a little, okay.
Client: Yeah. Yeah.
Todd: Continuing in that vein, are there any other ways that you can see? Yeah,
Client: the other one that seemed equally tiny, but I know might not be, he had recently I.
I lost a pet who he’d had for a long time, and he decided that’s the end of pet ownership for me because I wanna have, you know, be retired and have no obligations, commitments, whatever. And so, absolutely clear. Never gonna have a dog. Yeah. That’s not how I saw my future. And. You know, I mean, the whole idea of being with a man always seemed like it over, it would override any other consideration.
But I [00:22:00] love dogs. I, I love having pets and, and I know that they can be challenging, but in some form, you know, I just, it’s important to me anyway, so.
Todd: It’s not another, yes.
Client: Another data point. Another data
Todd: point. There we’re not absolutely perfectly matched. Like, yeah, okay, maybe that could be, I could work with it. There’d be ways to around it,
Client: navigate, negotiate, whatever. But yeah.
Todd: But you know, this just, this just brings, it starts to bring that story of absolute perfection.
Just down another notch. Down another notch. Um. To reality. We’re not purposely bringing it down, but we’re trying to balance it out. Yeah, yeah,
Client: yeah.
Todd: I mean, and if he wants no responsibilities, does he want, you know, how much does he want a partner too?
Client: Well, that’s, that’s the thing is, um, you know, [00:23:00] I, I mean, I am in reasonable health, but I have challenges.
In some areas or things that I need to work on, and what if I became crippled or fell ill, or was in an accident or something, all of a sudden you don’t want me around, right? Mm-hmm. Um, you know. And how would you feel if you were the one that got hit by a car or hadn’t had a stroke and suddenly, you know, what would you expect?
For me, would it be okay for me to just say, you know, nah. Yeah. So, um, and, and the thing he came up with, which I mentioned, you know, previously he had said, this is absolutely fine. He said, well, you know, I am up at three 30 in the morning. I’m active. I go out on my bike [00:24:00] and uh, you know, I’m busy and I have lots of flexibility.
And I’m like, I. Do a lot of things, but I don’t wake up at three 30 in the morning. And he previously talked about that he’d been with someone where they got up at four every morning, did yoga intensively for however many hours, and, and he said, this absolutely didn’t work. I’m like, I thought that wasn’t an issue, but now it’s an issue.
Todd: Yeah. So we’re starting to see that these things even that you discussed in an intimate close way are not all a hundred percent solid. Like even for him, right? Like it just that
Client: maybe I misunderstood, but I, I was not under the impression that he wanted a partner who would be awake and, you know, hiking.
At four 30 or five in the morning, even though I sometimes am
Todd: right,
Client: he [00:25:00] even said, you know, so it’s like,
Todd: so there, there’s something there, right? Not absolutely perfectly matched because partly just don’t know where he actually is. Don’t know what he’s actually what wanting or standing for. It’s, it’s confusing.
Client: It’s really confusing. There was other stuff that I haven’t. I, I, I, I mentioned he came over for this dinner, which was absolutely happy event with a few friends, and everybody loved him.
Everything was lovely. And the next morning on the phone, he said something, whatever it was about how he saw me. In that environment that clearly in his per perception, [00:26:00] I was whatever, I was too busy, too committed to helping others to whatever. You know? I’m like, this is, you are talking about a person who you describe as being, giving.
In the relationships that I have, I’m. Relationship to you. You don’t see that as a transfer. I mean, it just was like, what’s the problem? So sorry to bring up more story, but
Todd: no, this, this fits in with the, this turnaround that we were not absolutely perfectly matched. He didn’t quite understand, for whatever reason you’re giving nature.
That giving to everyone still had plenty left to give to him or whatever it was that he, that didn’t work for him about that.
Client: Yeah, it
Todd: was, it’s like he, he was on a different wavelength in a [00:27:00] way,
Client: or he might have not been telling the truth and that is also possible
Todd: or that, right, so the perfectly, absolutely, perfectly matched thing could be based on some non-truths there.
Something not a hundred percent.
Client: I doubt it, but uh, you know, it’s certainly possible even if it’s just, you know, my hunch is that he is projecting this thing based on his past, that he sees me as a red flag that looks like stuff that didn’t work for him before. It’s like, but I’m not that, you know.
Todd: So that even that can be an example here where, where we were not absolutely perfectly matched because he was projecting if that’s what was going on.
He was projecting onto me something from his past that isn’t [00:28:00] me. So he wasn’t actually seeing me. And so even though there was a lot of compatibility and everything, there was just like, you couldn’t, they couldn’t see. He couldn’t see. So not perfectly matched. Not perfectly matched. So this is where, you know, like we could, we could sit in this for, for hours in a way, and just kind of find different ways that he was not as perfectly matched as, as the mind would say.
Right. And it doesn’t, it’s not to negate all the things that you saw. Right. But it’s just to balance that story and the only purpose for doing that is to come in alignment with the reality of the situation, which is he said it’s not gonna work for him. And he’s kind of stood by that, as far as I’ve understood.
Client: Absolutely. Yeah.
Todd: Yeah. So that’s [00:29:00] reality and,
Client: and I’m starting to hate that word reality.
Todd: Reality can have some bad connotations, but
Client: damn it, no.
Todd: So what the only time reality hurts is when I’m attached to a fantasy that’s not matching it. That’s all. That’s not matching it. That’s not matching it. Yeah. So is we’re just questioning the fantasy a little bit and balancing that a little bit so that it’s not in at such odds to what’s really happening, um, to reality.
So yeah, it’s, this work is not for the faint of heart. Um, for sure.
Client: The other time I. I enjoy exploring in the future is my, my assumptions about myself and what this means about me because, um, you know, the whole yes, pain [00:30:00] of, you know, feeling like I’ve been left and like I need whatever it is that I think I, I don’t, I’m not sure what all of that is, but you know, there’s, I, I’m.
I’m guessing pretty strongly that there’s some underlying Yeah. Beliefs about what that means about me and for me. Yes. Um. And the whole, that
Todd: could be a great, great area to explore. In fact, that’s kind of what, when I asked that question, how do you treat yourself? There was, I was imagining some flavors of that, uh, already poking around.
Poking up. Yeah. And
Client: I just, as I say, I’m just not really clear about what that is.
Todd: Yeah. Um, well, a good prompt for that is like, you know, I’ve been left. It means, and then just fill in, like, just take a blank piece of paper. What does that mean about you? About, you know, and, and then [00:31:00] as you already mentioned earlier, you know, what do I need?
I need this. And what do I, what I, what do I want? You know, some of those things can be really good. Those, those prompts I want, I need, he should as well. But mainly I want, and I need, and then. He did this, he left me. And it means what, like those kind of things can start getting, uh, give you ideas of what are the stressful thoughts that are underlying this.
And then you can keep exploring by questioning those as well.
Client: So
Todd: when you,
Client: when you succeed at clearing through something deeply and you know, I’m sure it takes time and. Some several passes. Does it just lift and resolve in your, like does your heart just lift like, oh, it’s okay.
Todd: Yeah. Yeah. That’s it.[00:32:00]
Exactly. And some take a long time. Some take, some happen. Can be. In one, one go. It just, it’s gone, but some take a long time. But yes, that’s the feeling. It gets lighter and lighter and lighter, and at some point you’re looking at the same issue and you imagine someone doing the same thing to you or that past trauma and it’s just not.
Traumatic. It’s just not, it’s just, oh, okay. It’s, it’s neutral. That’s the feeling that, that I’ve experienced and many, many people I’ve talked to who do the work also experience. Um,
Client: so thank you all for your very, very loving attention. I am really. I really feel your presence and I’m glad, Edwin, that you did light up your face ’cause I can see it better.
So thank you and thank you Todd, for supporting me.
Todd: You’re welcome. You’re welcome. You know [00:33:00] I’ll, I’ll leave you with another turnaround to just kind of mull on with this same statement and that is I am absolutely perfectly matched. With myself, you know, like that regardless of whether he’s in my life or anyone else is in my life or not, that one I can absolutely know is true.
And there may be examples as you sit in that.
If you would like to participate in open sessions like the one we heard just now, then go to the work as meditation.com and then go to the open sessions page, and there you’ll see the schedule of upcoming sessions as, uh, well as you can sign up there and start to participate as someone who can ask any question they want or, um, if you want to do the work with me, this is a great way to access this and it’s completely free.[00:34:00]
Also while you’re at the work as meditation.com, check out the private sessions page. So. If you’d like to do the work one-on-one with me in a private setting. We work on Zoom and we, uh, basically can go anywhere you’d like, any topic, anything that you want to work on in a more private setting. This is what private sessions are designed for, and you can do 30 minute sessions, 60 minute sessions, even 90 minute sessions.
If you wanna learn more about that or sign up using my calendar, then go to the work as meditation.com, and then private sessions. Next, I’m going to read one of my newsletter articles called The Intimacy Trap Attraction or Distraction
in Photography. As with everything, I like to get really close the intimacy trap. Don’t get me wrong, [00:35:00] intimacy is one of the nicest things in the world. Whether it’s the intimacy that comes from connecting with a friend, the in intimacy that comes from studying something deeply with a teacher or the intimacy of a partner.
Relationship sharing is a beautiful thing, but all war starts over The desire for nice things. It’s not intimacy per se, but the attachment to it that makes us suffer. This came up in Inquiry Circle recently. For whatever reason, there have been fewer people active in Inquiry Circle for the past few months, and I started to feel a little empty.
I watched my own thoughts about this and then heard more from others. One of the thoughts that came up was a desire for an intimate group, a group of people doing the work together, A desire for people who show up regularly to share vulnerably together. In [00:36:00] fact, that is what actually happens in Inquiry Circle, but it’s just been a little less full recently when fewer people were participating, it gave the feeling that others don’t care.
Thus interrupting the feeling of connection and intimacy, but why are we actually here? When I look at my years of doing the work, I can see that I used to have a strong desire for intimacy in doing the work with others. It was actually a reason for doing the work for me. After all, what of a perfect setup for it?
Sharing my stressful thoughts with another person who listens and shares is a formula for closeness. I think some of my early motivation in doing the work was to connect with people. In that way. I was attracted to the intimacy, but over time, that has changed. Though I enjoy connecting with others. I don’t crave it anymore, and I don’t hold it as a kind of highest good.[00:37:00]
Instead, the real reason I do the work is to become more intimate with myself. I don’t care that much. If someone else witnesses my work and connects with me when I go inward and I don’t care so much about, about being close to another person as they do their work. I actually do find myself close when I join with them, when I listen, when I facilitate, but I don’t care so much.
This is really freeing. Inquiry Circle is a meditation hall. Inquiry Circle is primarily a place for each of us to dive inwardly to find greater closeness within ourself. It is simply a place for us to do the work online together. In that way, it doesn’t matter if someone doesn’t join me, but if intimacy is the primary purpose of the group, then my happiness depends on others being present and attentive.
The question is, why am I showing up? [00:38:00] To connect with others or to connect with myself. This makes all the difference when my only purpose is to connect with myself. I am happy to be the only person in Inquiry Circle, and ironically, when I do connect with myself, I automatically feel more connected with everyone else regardless of how they show up.
How about you? Why do you do the work? Is it for intimacy or for self-awareness? Maybe it’s both. Both are good. I’m curious to see how your experience changes over time, and who would you be if you didn’t crave intimacy in friendships, relationships, and groups of all kinds. Does the desire for intimacy bring you peace or stress?
Each situation is different. Take a look. Want to join Inquiry Circle. If your heart is into simply doing the [00:39:00] work on an ongoing basis, inquiry Circle could be a match for you. The prerequisite for joining Inquiry Circle is to take the work 1 0 1. I’d love to meet you there, and I won’t mind if you don’t learn more about the Work 1 0 1 my in-depth online training in the work of Byron Katie at the work as meditation.com, and there’s a page for it called The Work 1 0 1.
So I’ll end with a quote from Byron Katie, and this is from her book. I Need Your Love. Is that true? Eventually, every bandaid stops working and our painful thoughts ooze out. Only the truth can set us free. Only the truth can stop the pain and only with the truth can we be truly intimate.
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