We keep so many things hidden, that once we face our truth by letting it out we can properly attend the need of our inner most feelings properly. Carl Jung may have stated this is the shadow. Once free we can move forward. It is a process and time is needed.
There is a story from Mark Nepo, life of a caretaker, see this gift so I can see myself as giving. Sometimes we give something and it mirrors their own inadequacy, and the response is not gratitude it is sadness Intention gives the giver its response,
On Dec 16, 2025 Carol wrote on Genie Cannot Return To The Bottle, by Ted Gutfeldt: