Can we talk a little about therapy? Not so long ago no one really talked about it. We kind of knew many of us were doing it but no one really liked to talk about it. It was almost like that weird stigma, are you fucked up, why the hell do you need therapy, who needs therapy just move on! Maybe it was Tony Soprano, maybe it was the changing societal norms, who the fuck knows but it's definitely more commonplace than where we were 10-15 years ago.

It's a good thing!

Therapy is really good. It's good to talk to people about your problems, about your issues about your hangups. Having a good therapist can save you from a lot of the emotional and internal noise going on in your head. It can be cathartic, awful, terrifying, eye-opening, non-sensical, and exhausting, really really exhausting, but all of that is good. Some of us are lucky to have friends that can listen and offer sound advice, (that's rare) family, or parents (even rarer) but with a paid therapist you can get a good platform to just vent, maybe pull things apart, maybe just talk. While therapists can get spendy, 100-300 and up from my YEARS of experience they can be incredibly valuable.

I often dread talking to my therapist.

Honestly, in the hour leading up to the session, I usually think about ways to cancel, ways to push it out. Talking about yourself, at least for me SUCKS. You don't need to tell me how fucked up I am, how many issues I have, but it's rare that I really can't wait to talk to my therapist. She knows this by the way, we've been talking for 6 years.

I'm definitely not the first person to ever write about this but it's really good to talk about it - more coming.