When Anxiety Feels Like Intuition
I spent years trusting my "gut", only to realise I was mistaking chronic worry for wisdom. Here is how I learned to tell the difference in my sessions.
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I spent years trusting my "gut", only to realise I was mistaking chronic worry for wisdom. Here is how I learned to tell the difference in my sessions.
New mothers are told to "enjoy every moment," but no one talks about the fog, the guilt, or the rage. As a therapist and a mother, I want to change that.
My male clients rarely walk in by choice. Most come because someone who loves them asked them to. That first conversation is everything, here's what I've learnt.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works. But it also asks you to challenge thoughts that feel completely true. My clients often hate the first few weeks, and then something shifts.
A year after the loss, people expect you to be "over it." But grief is not linear, and as someone who has sat with hundreds of grieving clients, I can tell you: there is no right way through it.