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Posts by Cassandra Moore

Cassandra Moore is a writer who lives in Portland, OR and works as a Mindfulness Teacher for the first for-credit Mindful Studies program in the country. She is native to the desert southwest and is writing her first book.

Why I Won’t Just “Let Go” of the Hurt in My Heart

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“It’s not a matter of ‘letting go.’ You would if you could. Instead of ‘let it go’ we should probably say ‘let it be.’” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn

I’m not good at heartbreak. I wrestle the circumstances, hate it, and can’t let go of the hope that the relationship could be transformed.

Aren’t there people who do heartbreak well? Aren’t there folks who sit in heartbreak for just a little while, then shortly fold up their hands and accept the situation? Sometimes it seems there are those who even flip a switch—”It didn’t work, we tried our best”—and that’s that, and they …