I have a fantastic therapist. He and I have a fabulous relationship, he helps me, he listens, he’s understanding and wise.
Yes, I’m talking about therapy which many state to be irrelevant and useless.
I honestly believe this is ego, very few want to admit they need support, to be seen, to be heard, to be acknowledged as sovereign. And fair enough, it’s their choice and I’m not even suggesting that everyone should be crying in public a la Jordan Peterson (which I also found really creepy!).
But there are things that I’ve related to my therapist and the act of saying them out loud to someone sympathetic has made me realise just how much I’ve belittled myself and enormously underplayed the significance of how shitty certain people have treated me.
Everyone’s feeling it but most, I believe, keep it to themselves. Again, every individual’s choice but I’ll tell you what finding the right person to say it to does – it properly takes the pressure off.
Have a think about it.