Or three even smaller rocks

I think this is a robot Chicken joke 😁

Someone who works with a particular style of therapy. I’m gonna over simplify because this is a lemmy post not a classroom.

There’s psychodynamic therapy (think Freudian) where the therapist works out what’s wrong with you and tells you what you need to do to fix it.

There’s behavioural therapy (think CBT) where what you feel isn’t the issue, it’s about changing your behaviour to fix your life.

And there’s humanistic (think Carl Roger’s Person Centred, etc) which is about the therapist being an ally, working with awareness, support and warmth. They’re the most non judgmental, they’re the best for making changes at a deep level and they’re least likely to tell you what to do. Advice is not part of the work.

Almost all the reasons I hear for not going to therapy don’t apply to holistic therapy, only the medical approach.

Find a humanistic therapist if you want someone to support you rather than fix you.

Been listening to the stories of how people saved, supported and fought for others during the Holocaust, even risking their own lives.

I’m not taking away from the tragedy of the loss suffered by so many. I’m saying we can take some hope that human nature is complex enough and good enough that we must not lose sight of that in the face of evil.

For sure. Done of them likely coming from me taking some fairly mundane risks, like putting myself out there

Yeah, totally.

At 30 I realised I was utterly depressed and had been most of my life. Was so used to it that I didn’t realise I could be any different.

Started a long long journey to sort that. Started trying things. Scary as it was, it was less scary than living the rest of my life without ever having lived.

Tried new relationships, new religions, tried new experiences. Again, pushing myself out of my comfort zone a lot but then if I didn’t, I was heading towards an early grave and what could be worse than dying?