Coming to therapy is not about blaming your parents. It can, however, involve having an honest and compassionate conversation about your childhood experiences and how they shaped the way you feel about yourself and see the world.
You have decided to explore therapy and that is a brave and hopeful step. This blog is to give you some ideas to help you notice what matters, trust your instincts and feel a little more confident about taking the next step.
As a therapist, I find that one of the most difficult concepts to communicate is that our so-called negative feelings are, in fact, clues to our healing.
Let me ask you a question. How do you react when you feel sad and how do you cope with it? Long before I trained as a therapist, my response would have been to shut down or distract myself. Suppression felt safer than the vulnerability that came with sadness.