03/03/2025
Therapist Confessions 🤫
Your therapist is human, and they are far from perfect!
Plenty of us became therapists because we have suffered.
We have been in the trenches.
We have given up hope.
We have cried ourselves to sleep.
We have felt unloved and unlovable.
We have lost ourselves.
We have had moments of panic, of pure fear, of deep despair.
And we have made it out.
We crawled slowly out of the pit, our own therapist by our side.
We tentatively peeked back out into the world
and when we reached ourselves again, we walked far enough that we could train ourselves up to help others,
to reach down into the pit and pull others out so they can walk alongside us and enjoy life again.
So, yes, we may sometimes seem like we are 'just listening',
but mostly we are feeling it with you.
And we are still fu***ng things up in our own lives, and ignoring our own knowledge, and being just as wonderfully messy as the rest of you.
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Therapists - what are YOUR confessions? 🤔🫣
