"Tell her she should come home."
"Tell him to let me go."
Dr. Pacer adjusted her glasses to sit higher on her pointy nose. Golden curls fell in ringlets to her shoulders. In the background, a metronome ticked off.
"Folks, this isn't how therapy works. We need to calm down and face the problems causing the distance between you.
"Think of this as your knot ball." She held up a softball-sized ball. The ball was made up of multicolored cords knotted together with knot falling over knot with cords woven in and out. It was the nightmare of the parents of small children everywhere who were perpetually caught trying to get knots of shoestrings at the last minute.
"Here." Dr. Pacer tossed us each a ball. "Take these with you. Reflect on them. You can also work free the knots if you like, but with each knot freed, try to relate it to some small hurt that you are holding inside. Release the resentment, the pain, and the fear as you release the knot."