the transference, the counter-transference, the anger, the fear, the resentment, the sadness, the phobias, the counter phobias, the hurt and anguish,

there can be a truly profound sense of lonliness left.

Like, in the end, I was left to my own devices to survive. Just me.

I think when you let your therapist touch that essential, existential lonliness, that's the recovery.

That's the blossoming.