Cry Me A River

Some people can have a problem with you and keep it moving. Other people need a committee.

Cry Me a River is for the second kind.

This oil was created for situations where someone has decided their personal issue with you needs to become everybody else’s business. The gossip. The little comments. The selective retelling of events. The group chats. The shade disguised as concern. The constant need to bring your name up and convince other people that whatever problem they have with you should now be their problem too.

Cry Me a River is worked to keep someone else’s grievance from gaining social traction.

Instead of trying to force somebody to stop talking, this work focuses on what happens when they do. Their words have a harder time carrying weight. Attempts to recruit other people into the conflict fall flat. Gossip doesn’t travel the way they intended. People are less inclined to take sides, repeat the story, or suddenly change their opinion of you because somebody else has an axe to grind.

It can also be worked to protect your existing relationships, reputation, business connections, professional standing, and social circle from someone attempting to poison the well.

And if they insist on continuing?

Let them talk long enough for people to start noticing who keeps bringing you up.

Use Cry Me a River during friendship fallouts, workplace drama, family conflicts, messy breakups, business disputes, online drama, competitive situations, or anytime someone seems determined to turn their feelings about you into a public campaign.

This is not about uncovering what’s being said behind your back, and it isn’t necessarily about silencing anybody.