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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.
 

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 ...

What is therapy?

Melissa

“I’m still not sure why I’m here… what this whole therapy is all about…” I said to my therapist back then. “What, indeed, is therapy?” ...

The Imbalance

Melissa

I am feeling these stirrings in my heart, the pain that ripples through — stronger, stronger — when I think of our encounter. The soothing ...

Don’t touch me

Melissa

Don’t touch meMy skin is brittlePaper thinThe slightest touchWill make me bleed Don’t reach meThe invitationNot to be aloneWill uncork in meA well of need ...

When the wrong mark is hit

Melissa

I came into the session feeling pathetic. Feeling awkward. It happens often, especially after the holidays invade the calendar and snatch up several therapy days. ...

Coming home

Member's Share

By: Shira Lavon Hi, inner childAre you there?Or have I lost my mind? Wait, I see someone smallAt the bottom of a dark, dreary holeCurled ...

Little girl (a spoof)

Melissa

Not too long ago, I was having this major push and pull with the little girl inside me. (Oh man, I’m not the inner child ...