I'm in such a great place in therapy. I've come so far and healing has become so apparent that it is pretty close to tangible. Life is sweet, and my therapist is beyond amazing.

So, you know when you clean your house and you walk into a clean room and you can immediately see when something is out of place, dirty, or unorganized? Well, that is where I am on my therapy journey. We've cleaned up all the larger-than-life messes and now the little piles of yuck are more noticeable to where I can be specific about what they are. This helps me to relay to my therapist exactly what I need and she is always ready to help.

One of the things we have been working on for the past three weeks is a list of 43 words that I have extreme difficulty saying out loud. Some of them are very innocent words or words that shouldn't be shameful, but they are for me. I brought in my list of difficult words and every week we have picked five words for me to practice saying out loud with her and at home. Then, at my next session she gets me to say them out loud to her. I have one of my stand-in moms help me and she makes up funny sentences with the words, which makes me giggle like a little kid. It takes away some of the sting of the words, because she is just so funny.

When I say them to my therapist she likes to hear the funny sentences and then I get tickled again. Every week we review all of the previous weeks' words plus the current week's words. I can't tell you how neat of a process it has been. I still get a tiny bit squirmy about some of the words, but not totally mortified and embarrassed by them.

Do you have certain words that are painful, embarrassing, and/or triggering that you can't say or even have difficulty hearing? I want to see if I'm the only person who struggles with this or if there are some fellow onomatophobics out there.