This is really sweet! I'm just a couple of months into seeing my amazingly kind, empathic therapist, but it still messes with my head sometimes, this unconditional positive regard.

My therapist and I both read a lot and we trade book recommendations constantly. We've both been reading some of Alice Miller's works, a psychotherapist. This quote from "Free from Lies" really embodies good therapy to me, or at least in my situation with trauma: "[The therapist] is a partial one, someone who sided unequivocally with the tormented child and displayed indignation at the wrongs done to that child before the client is capable of doing so. "