When I started therapy 3.5 years ago, I didn't even know what maternal transference was until I came here and read about it. I'd never heard the term before but all of a sudden my inner feelings that I'd never dared admit to anyone for the shame of it all, started to make sense. Apparently my feelings were perfectly normal! It was a huge relief to realise that.
I didn't know it was ok to care about your therapist and feel a bond with them. I thought I was creepy and weird and couldn't understand why I felt the way I did.

There's a few people on here who've really helped me a lot in understanding attachment and trauma and even just how therapy is supposed to work. I can't think specifically of phrases or anything that have stuck, but just reading the collective experience of all our therapy experiences and it's ups and downs have been central to my healing journey.