Diane Fraley

Norma, wearing a red shirt and black pants, is hunched under the symbolic figure “it” resting heavily on her back. The background is black on the left and white on the right, with the quote: “Some things we carry were never meant to be ours.

The Burden of it

Some things we carry were
never meant to be ours.


Tags: abstract responsibility, compassion, emotional weight, existential burden, fatigue, heaviness, identity confusion, inherited belief, inner dialogue, inner pressure, invisible struggle, it, it series, letting go, meaning, mental exhaustion, non-ownership, over-responsibility, personal boundaries, questioning, quiet sorrow, release, self-reflection, spiritual weight, symbolic load, thought construct, transformation

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Stop Sitting on It
Stop Carrying it with You
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