That sounds like an amazing self validating awareness!

For me, I think it’s leaning into what makes me afraid.

Not really in those actual words. I’m seeing his face right now, when I’m talking about something that I don’t understand that has come to me.

He asks me how I feel about that or that part of me and I say that I am curious.

It feels like I could pull out the scariest parts of me and his comment would be, “How/what do you feel about that part?”

I always feels safe in saying I feel curious because I know I’m safe in looking at it with him.

Being curious is the way to understanding. It’s the way to sorting out what is confusing.

Curious.

That’s the most important thing that I’ve learned from my counselor.

It’s the door for answers and freedom.