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Post by Susan Peabody on Feb 4, 2009 13:06:03 GMT -8
Therapy is a mixed bag. Sometimes you have a good therapist and you get a lot out of it. Sometimes you have an inadequate therapist and it’s a waste of time. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and if you’re not satisfied with your progress in your support group, then giving therapy a try might do the trick. The individual attention and intuition of a therapist can untangle a lot of mysteries. And change always begins with the truth.
Of course, therapy is a slow process, especially if you just sit there and talk. What makes therapy work is acting upon the insights you get from a good session. Furthermore, your therapist is not going to wave a magic wand and change you. You have to do the work. One day I told my therapist that I was unhappy with the progress we were making. “What do you mean we?” he said. “Well,” I mumbled, “isn’t this a team effort?” “No,” he said, “You’re the one that has to do the work. I hold the flashlight; you chop the wood.”
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