The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz -Thoughts

The gift that keeps on giving

I used to be afraid of therapy.

I now know why.

Therapy changes you. Well, it changed me. And it was the change I was hoping for, it was the change I was looking for but didn’t know how to access.

I was afraid of myself really.

I was afraid of my thoughts, my dreams, my hidden traumas.

So I hid them even more. Until it was a make or break time.

Decades ag…