Tis the season.

I make all sorts of ludicrous holiday seasonal year end resolutions.

Nothing about the gymn. I actually like to exercise moderately and this is something I have never resolved to change.

Everything else, though, is on the table. It sickens me to think of the broken promises I've made to myself and how I have (sometimes) treated my therapy journey as another big fat resolution and the way that this often backfires on me and I end up having one more thing to beat myself up about. And life is just too short for that, year in and year out.

I was inspired to post this by a post from StopDog who noted that therapy could be what WE --not the Therapist-- wanted, given that we are paying for services..... This is not the usual way that I approach things, being an approval seeker and people pleaser, I have strived to get my therapists' approval and please my therapists. It hasn't worked very well. They can see right through it (the good ones, anyway!).

However, trusting the process of the therapy itself has led to amazing results for me, and not a few surprises and lots of joy and peace. Which is what I am after....after all.

So...I don't have a resolution for New Year's for therapy...do you? Others may have an entirely different approach, and I'd like to hear what your New Year's Therapy notions are. If you'd like to share.

Or not!

Blessings,

MCL