The Real Work Begins
I know, I know. Another blog post instead of a video this week. I’m definitely in an off streak for that, but I’m ok with it. I’m trying to be as honest as I can with this blog and the videos that I shoot. I also know that I will likely never be 100% honest here; not out of malice or ill will, but out of my own sense of anxiety, and fear of disappointing people.
I had my first session with a new therapist this week and this was one of the things we talked about as part of the “intake” process. He was going over his policies and what his overarching philosophy is for therapy and one of the things he brought up was about honesty; that even though there are people we love, care about, and tell “everything” to, there are plenty of cases where we aren’t fully honest.
I know that I tell all of you lots of different things about my life, probably more than you’d expect, but I don’t tell you everything. I tell you enough to maintain whatever image of me you might have. I think the reason I’m saying all this is to frame that image and temper your expectations of what I talk about here. I’m still going to talk about things, there just might be gaps that are just too personal to put out there.
This week…stuff happened. Some good, some less so. I feel like the more important thing was that I’m feeling a little more hopeful about my life and happy to be in therapy sorting things out. I know there is a lot of work for me to do, but I’ve started that process and that’s what matters.
P.S. In the months to come, I plan on taking some of the learnings I get from therapy and talking about them. I think that will help me build some kind of accountability with the work I should be doing on myself.
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