You know what's really hard?  Trying to reduce mental stress.  Shoving it all under the rug doesn't actually reduce the stress.  It makes a big, ugly bump in the rug and every time you trip over the bump, you stub your toe and hop around angrily, cursing yourself for being so stupid as to have shoved something under the rug.  What was that thing anyway?  Oh, right.  *stress level creeps back up*

If the bump were all mine, I'd pull it out and spread all the components out on the floor, patching and repairing what I can, sighing and pitching the ones beyond hope of repair.  Parts of this bump aren't mine to fix though, so the whole thing will have to remain under the rug a little while longer.  Until the day we can sit and sort through it together, I'll have to give that bump a wide berth, perhaps avoid the whole room for a while.

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[marsie]

recipe for melting stress bumps under rugs:
close eyes.
sit and listen to your breath for at least 10 minutes.
exhale twice as long as you inhaled.
eat lunch outside under a tree and listen to the birds and watch the clouds
(try to make clouds move!)
check out that rug bump ~ bet it's shrunk!
...repeat if bump tries to rise again