Big Swiss

Before her first session with Om, Greta goes into a coffee shop and eavesdrops on two strangers talking. One man tells the other about a brawl in the alley between two bars, in which a townie stabbed a tourist from the city several times.

Greta limps into Om’s office, explaining that she has glass stuck in her right foot. Om examines her foot and asks Greta to tell him about where she was when her mother died. Greta had followed a schoolgirl crush to horse-riding camp. It hadn’t been a good experience and a horse named Honey had stepped on her right foot and broken it. As Om removes the tiniest grain of glass off her foot, he proposes that she has restrained herself from self-compassion since her mother died. The glass shard in her foot is a projection of her lack of self-love. Om uses the metaphor of the “straitjacket” to explain how Greta restrains herself.

Sabine has bought two miniature donkeys, who finally arrive at her house. She explains that she’s heard that mini donkeys can heal a broken heart like hers. Both Sabine and