Making our Souls better through Therapy

The subject came up in my circle about therapy and what it does for us. If you believe that you bring your old issues back with you time and time again until you resolve them, then therapy may be the key. Now therapy may be defined in many ways–pet therapy, aromatherapy, physical therapy–but here I mean therapy of the psyche. This entails opening yourself up to a complete stranger, which to me at least is easier than exposing my nasty skeletons to someone I actually LOVE and fearing their judgment. When you work out your issues with a stranger, the relationship lacks the emotional bonds that allow non-partial investigation of the issue itself (countertransference aside).

I have spent years in and out of therapy, but each time I enter another round of it, I peel another layer away from the onion that is me. It’s not so much that the therapist fixes me, but rather she guides me to look in the corners of my psyche that my ego tends to hide. And with that introverted perspective, I learn something new–why I react in certain situations, why it is that I repeat the same harmful actions again and again.

Someday I hope to return to a life where I have no issues; simply living every day in the joy of the moment is a wonderful goal to have…but then would life end because the lessons have all been learned?

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