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A Personal Take

Our blogs cover a section detailing one client’s adventures on the therapy chair, another focused on the journey of healing deep wounds and filling gaping voids. Featured is also a blog with advice from mental health professionals on all topics therapy and healing, as well as a space where site members share their thoughts and writings.
 

Grist for the mill

Melissa

Sometimes it feels like all week I’m packing sacks of grain. Preparing grist for the therapy mill. Trying to remember every moment of discomfort, every ...

The cycle

Melissa

It’s the swinging that does me in. The way I do a 180 over the course of the week. There’s a part that shows up ...

Don’t hide from me

Melissa

The perfect therapy experience is what you seem to strive to give. To be there for me fully. Wholly. No distractions. Your commitment is solid. ...

Barbed Wire

Melissa

I won’t dare go near a boundary in therapy. I will rather bury my needs deep within. Inhibit myself. Let my angst fester beneath my ...

Therapy Pains

Melissa

It’s a pain I can’t explain Nor understand That rises up At the slightest provocation That only it detects It pierces my chest Hijacks my ...

Brain Fog

Melissa

I’m tired of reflectingOf dissectingOf connectingThe scattered and shattered blurred dots Exhausted from pryingFrom cryingFrom tryingTo untangle the mangled huge knots Have brain fog from ...

Mute

Melissa

I can’t talk, because I need so much more support than you can give me. I can’t talk, because 50 minutes is hardly enough to ...

Surrender

Melissa

When I raise the white flag of surrenderUpon a mound of shards of myselfThat could no longer keep it togetherWill anyone even know it? When ...

Trust… what?

Melissa

“Trust the process,” is what they say. But submitting to this process feels like a freefall without a parachute, like I’m giving up the modicum ...

What I knew all along

Melissa

“I can’t need anyone,” I said solemnly, meaning it with every fiber of my being. “No one cares enough. No one understands. No one has ...

The fence I built

Melissa

I’m dying of thirst Just a few feet away from water Behind a fence Of my own making Why did I erect this fence And ...

Pie in the sky?

Member's Share

By: Malky Grunwald I’ve been hurt. In a deep way. Biting, ugly words were rubbed into tender, bleeding skin. By someone who should have been ...