I lied my ***** off in my intake. "No, I've never been abused. No, I've never hurt myself. No, I have no concerns about intimacy." LOL. Some of it, I didn't even *know* I was lying about, because I believed my story so completely.

So I went in the next session and said, "So, I lied about something." And dumped the truth of that one thing out on the table. T took it in stride, as he has all my other confessions.

Perhaps a good first step is admitting that you haven't been truthful about some things--you don't even have to say *what*, if you don't want to. Just getting that out on the table may be an important first step.