Do something you want to do.
That’s what my therapist told me as I sat sobbing on her couch during one of our bi-weekly sessions.
It has been about eight months since I stopped going to see her and I can tell I’m so much stronger and healthier than I was then. But I still struggle with those words to this day.
I’ve lived almost my entire life trying to please others: my parents, my boyfriends my teachers, my bosses. I realized during therapy that I’d put myself pretty low on the totem pole of priorities. So being faced with the challenge of doing something I wanted was a little daunting.
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