{"id":635,"date":"2014-12-30T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T18:45:29","slug":"what-i-learned-from-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/what-i-learned-from-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned from therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like I could make this a super duper short thing, a medium thing, or a super looong thing. I’m going to aim for some happy medium, though.<\/p>\n

For the tl;dr crowd, here is the distillation of what I learned and what I apply in challenging moments: Ask yourself: What do I want? Be honest (about what you want). Be kind (to yourself and others). Tell the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nOnce we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome universe which dwarfs – in time, in space, and in potential – the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. ~ Carl Sagan<\/em><\/p>\n

By the end of 2010 I was a worn-out husk of a human. I\u2019d managed to leave my job gracefully, but not without paying a price. I\u2019d lost all my self-confidence. I didn\u2019t trust myself. I thought I was just exhausted and needed to rest. But after two years, it became apparent that rest wasn\u2019t the only thing I needed.<\/p>\n

I knew I was having problems when I was interpreting everything with the same level of fear. It didn\u2019t matter what it was. My internal sense of things was waaaay off, but I could only tell by extrapolation. So I found a therapist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were many things that I worked on over the almost two years I worked with G: <\/p>\n