In the upcoming time, you will be processing that you have been hurt in the past and that you have lost something - trust, a sense of safety, or a version of the future you expected to step into.
Just like a person restoring an old home, you could be tempted to just put a band-aid on the wound, and to just simply paint over the water-damaged walls so that it will seem as though nothing ever happened to the house. But instead, you are choosing the harder, truer path: stripping the wallpaper and allowing the timber to dry out.
Yes, it may create some dust in the house and it may not be the easiest path for you to take, but it will make sure that once you finally do paint the walls, it will be good to go for the long-term future.
This process will very much be like when a great storm has created a mud pool where there once was a clear path, with lots of branches and stuff that got stuck in there. And you removing the debris, putting it in your backpack which weighs way too heavy on you, and you finally deciding to put the backpack down leaving it in the past.
This will free up your energy for you to be joyful again. And you can now just peacefully and feeling much lighter again sit down and look back at the path you just cleared behind you. No longer being drowned by the storm, you have decided to leave it in the past, stripping the person or the event of the power it once had over you.
