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Beneath the surface

Melissa

We discuss benign topics. I stay on safe ground. Expectations, values, a tiny touch on guilt. We can talk about these things. And then I ...

When Therapy Doesn’t Feel Therapeutic

Melissa

Apparently, I’m here for healing — for you to teach me that I have a place in the world. That there are actually people who ...

Unfilled

Melissa

You open up a well of needA void in which deep yearning breedsSearing pain that makes me chokeAs I inhale burning, acrid smoke A chasm ...

Story of my life

Melissa

What if the fact that I need healing is a myth planted in my brain by the therapy community? What if the fact that I’m ...

After a week

Melissa

Who are you? I wonder. Are you the person I felt so understood by all those months, er, I mean, six days ago? The one ...