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On the Chair

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

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. ...

All-you-can-talk Tuesday

Melissa

Come Tuesday, and it’s time to talk. It’s time to fill myself up by, as ironic as it is, getting some of the stuff choking ...

I can’t touch it

Melissa

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a heart implodes deep ...

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 ...