I am glad to hear you are finding your way through it all. It sounds like you have a good therapist too. I think you have the right mindset in realizing that you don't have to follow along the path of others. You are a very different person, stronger then they were. And also you have a different history then others, so in that you will be different, we are all different, our own person, always remember that.

People tend to think that at a certain age they should know who they are and what they want to be in life. But the reality is, we learn and develope into ourselves all of our lives. And that is what "you" are slowly realizing yourself if you think about it. I hear people that are depressed because they get it in their mind that they should be all set with a life path and they don't see themselves "there yet'. But honestly there really is no real "there" because life is changing all the time and we are always learning whether we want to or not, that is just how life goes.

Remember that you don't "have to" think that taking time to sort through your past has to be painful all the time. The point is to make sure you talk about it, see the things you may not have known how to sort through, and then sort through them with your therapist until you can set it aside and choose to move forward with "you" and "learning" and "growing again".

It sounds like that is what you are doing now, and you are getting stronger, even though you still have challenges, you are still leaving room to grow and learn, because that is what you have to do, "have you own personal journey and growth all your life".

Open Eyes