There are parts of you
that want the sadness.
Seek them out.
Ask them why.
-Yrsa Daley-Ward
The world around you is hazy.
Nothing comes easily into focus.
And you feel alone.
It’s a dark and lonely place
but there’s something about the sadness that feels familiar.
You wonder if it’s possible to feel something different.
Something lighter.
Even happier?
But that’s a complicated word.
In daily life, the simplest things feel impossible. There are few things [if any] that give you a sense of purpose or something to look forward to. You find small doses of motivation when it comes from external sources [e.g., meeting the deadline, taking care of other people’s needs] but even the external motivators sometimes aren’t enough to help you show up in the way you want to. And you’re incredibly hard on yourself.
You’d like to experience a different type of connection with yourself and the people around you but the solution feels like it’s beyond your reach, like someone else knows how to fix it. You have more answers than you realize. There are parts of yourself that you don’t have access to, parts of yourself that have been disowned. Therapy offers a relational space where you can rediscover those parts by seeing yourself through a new set of eyes. It’s vulnerable to let someone else in. You may not even know how to talk about it yet but you are worth being known and your pain deserves to be seen.
We can sit together in the dark place and find hope that the fog will lift.
This is where you’ll find yourself and we’ll figure out where you want to go from there.