It’s been happening more and more; you get into an argument with your partner or another family member. Whether it’s the same issue or a brand new one, the heat is rising because you’re not hearing each other.
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Therapy is an investment of time, money, and emotion. As with any investment, it’s worth stepping back once in a while from therapy to assess how it’s working. The question then becomes: What feels different than when you started?
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Sure of what you want to do next and know your future calling? Hats off. Many of us—even into midlife—don’t know exactly what we want to be when we (next) grow up. This beginner’s stage may feel odd or even embarrassing, especially if you’ve been a manager, mentor, or boss.
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While Sigmund Freud got a lot wrong, there’s also much he got right. Freud invented talk therapy and understood its effectiveness in working through emotional trauma. He also understood that there are biological underpinnings to emotional experience, including trauma.
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A yoga teacher I knew liked to say that the real yoga is off the mat. What he means is that coming to class each week is great for strength, flexibility, and stress reduction, but that its greatest value is in helping us move with greater ease for the other 167 hours of the week.
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“Anxiety makes depression look like a day at the beach,” someone told me recently. What he meant was that while fighting depression is all-consuming, anxiety is unbearable because it makes him want to jump right out of his skin. That man spoke for many of us. Managing anxiety is a tall order. It’s also possible. Talk therapy offers sustainable and lasting change by making you aware of what triggers or worsens your anxiety…
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Before the pandemic hit, a journalist made a prediction. An expert in epidemiology who covered the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s, he said something that stayed with me.
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A couple was having trouble last year, and it looked as though they were headed for a breakup. Then lockdown happened, and I didn’t hear from them for a while. This happens sometimes; couples need to step back and take stock of what has gone on in therapy. A few months later, I heard from them again.
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