Pip: There’s a particular kind of haunting that no amount of sage, therapy, or strongly worded letters seems to fix — and Integrative Health and Allergy goes there.
Mara: Today we’re following Dr. Jen Wyman-Clemons, MD through the territory of emotional possession, the rituals we use to release what won’t let go, and what happens when closure refuses to cooperate. Let’s start with the trying-to-let-go part.
Letting Go, or Trying to…again
Pip: The central tension here is one most people recognize even if they wouldn’t name it the same way: you’ve done everything right — the therapy, the rituals, the direct conversations — and the feeling still hasn’t left. What does it mean to pursue closure when the other person keeps not quite saying no?
Mara: The post opens in that exact exhausted place. After banishing rituals, over a thousand dollars in therapy, and ten months of persistent feeling, the post describes it this way: “it fills me with passionate love, sadness, and desperate longing — often several times a day — that is where the terrible part comes in; it has been very distracting even when I’m doing other stuff, not unlike having a tic.”
Pip: So this isn’t wistful background noise. It’s intrusive, recurring, and it’s interfering with daily life. That’s the real stakes — not romance, but function.
Mara: The backstory matters here. The connection originated during a Reiki session — prolonged quiet touch, what the post calls an “eye melt” — and that physical intimacy is framed as the entry point for what gets called a Love Daemon Entity, a spirit that took root and keeps reestablishing itself.
Pip: And the attempts to dislodge it are genuinely methodical. Banishing, ignoring, engaging, asking the entity directly what it wants. Then actual contact — notes, letters, a face-to-face visit in June — all asking for a clear no.
Mara: What he gave instead was this: “take the experience where it leads you.” Not a no, not a yes. The post is precise about that — he did not once discount the experience as described, and he did not say no.
Pip: Which is its own kind of answer, honestly, just not a useful one.
Mara: At her counselor’s urging, a letter went out with a specific deadline — say yes or no by end of the weekend, or expect a call Monday. She kept her word, called, and was passed to an office manager who used the words harassment and police. The post ends with a footnote: when conditions allow, the plan is an exorcism retreat near mountains, possibly Nepal, and a note that the writing may get a little bitter in the meantime.
Pip: The footnote doing the emotional heavy lifting is very on-brand for someone still mid-process.
Mara: What the post captures, underneath all of it, is the cost of ambiguity — what happens when someone’s silence reads as permission and then suddenly doesn’t.
Pip: Closure that depends on another person’s cooperation is a genuinely unstable foundation.
Mara: And that’s the thread worth carrying forward — what we reach for when the usual tools don’t work, and what we do with the answer we didn’t expect. More from this space next time.
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