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On the Chair

A blog detailing my adventures on the therapy chair as a client

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...