Photo by Daniel Apodaca on Unsplash 2025 may we communicate openly with mindfulness and sensitivity when meeting each other heart-to-heart may we brave discomfort and honesty when tending to our wounding holding space for ourselves with compassion may we welcome and invite love as it is given and may we be open and feel when…
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Photo by Yulia Matvienko on Unsplash Why should I see a therapist? I have never been in therapy, except for attending couples therapy some years ago, which, to be honest, didn’t help much—if at all—beyond confirming the inescapable truth that we were not compatible. However, through that process, I might have shed some of the…
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