WELLBEING → A BETTER YOU Issue 1063 · May 28, 2025

Letting Go   

If it was so easy to let go, we would have done it already. Right?

Letting Go   
Letting Go
By Shoshana Schwartz

You’ve been told to “just let it go.” It’s common advice when you’re stuck in frustration, resentment, or disappointment over something beyond your control. But let’s be real — if you could have let it go, you would have!

Letting go isn’t as simple as flipping a switch. You can’t pretend you don’t care or force yourself to forget.

Imagine you’ve spent weeks on a work project, refining every detail, putting in extra hours, only to have your manager make last-minute changes that undermine some of your work. You’re left feeling frustrated and powerless.

Or your neighbor accuses you of deliberately blocking their driveway with your garbage cans. You try to explain, but they won’t listen. Every time you see them, you feel a flash of irritation.

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