“If we give priority to the outer life, our inner life will be dark and scary. We will not know what to do with solitude. We will be deeply uncomfortable with self-examination, and we will have an increasingly short attention …
Tag: therapy
Good Girl
I’m sitting on my therapist’s couch, clenching wads of damp, mascara covered kleenax in my fist. I’m a crier. If you get me alone and talking about anything remotely emotional, the tears just flood in. It’s uncontrollable. I don’t even …
On Break(throughs)
I just need a breakthrough. I keep telling myself this. I need a breakthrough at work, where a barrier crumbles and I’m let in. I’m allowed to swim through the tormented, beautiful minds. Where I’m listened to and asked to listen. …
Therapy
The first time I saw a therapist was after my parents divorced my freshman year of high school. I didn’t care for it much at the time. The first time I chose to go to a therapist was my senior …
