The Bench
Reflections from The Bench
Thoughts, stories, and quiet invitations to come home to yourself.
Category: Change
When I started therapy and began doing the deeper work of understanding myself, I discovered something that astounded me. So much of the work I needed to do came down to learning to say one very simple word to myself: Yes!
Although a great deal has changed for women, I think some of those old messages are still hiding inside us. They've been passed down through generations, sometimes so quietly that we don't even recognize them anymore.
We allow ourselves a beautiful thought about something we desire... and then immediately our minds explain why we can't have it. Houston, we have a problem!
As we become more aware of ourselves—of what matters to us, what brings us alive, what feels meaningful, what feels true—we may discover that some of the choices we made no longer express who we are.
I used to teach people how to change their beliefs, but who was I teaching something I couldn't master myself?