![]() ![]() Or maybe parts of your experience transcend language - you might use music or art or movement to express the pain you feel. Aza uses the metaphor of a spiral most commonly to describe what her obsessive thoughts feel like, but maybe you have your own metaphor for your experience. Metaphor is such a powerful tool that can help us make sense of reality between our “inside” world and the “outside” world. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense and senses.” Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. The words used to describe it - despair, fear, anxiety, obsession - do so little to communicate it. Like a rodent gnawing at you from the inside. If you can make something real, if you can see it and smell it and touch it, then you can kill it. “You lie there, not even thinking really, except to try to consider how to describe the hurt, as if finding the language for it might bring it up out of you. ![]()
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