I don't need therapy, because I'll fix it myself, as I've always done.

It has always worked and this time won't be different.

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I don't need therapy, because I'm already doing enough introspection:

I'm an overthinker and I question myself enough!

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Sounds familiar?

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As a therapist I realize how we often reach for those words that reject therapy out of

self-protection,

independence,

habit,

maybe sometimes even shame.

In therapy that is called resistance.

And resistance is a necessary thing: it protects us.

It makes us persevere or even survive.

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Today I would like to add this for you: You don't need therapy, yet you are here reading this.

Because something in you wants to stay with it for a while longer.

And maybe we can start there: "I don't think I need therapy and yet I am reading this."

Because something is gnawing.

But the resistance to look at that gnawing thing is also welcome.

Because you are welcome. Welcome as you are.