Here is how I release cords when exes want my energy.

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Here is how I cut cords when exes want my energy — First, I remind myself not to feel bad for them, that they chose their lives, and that I cannot and should not fix another human being.

Then I wipe the soul molasses slime off my arms. It’s filled with their problems, their dreams, the traumas they wanted me to stop and solve. I wipe that off, and it’s so sticky that…