209. Therapy and Good Things
Sometimes it has felt to me that in therapy there is a focus on the things that went wrong in your life, and on the bad things that happened. I have come to believe that often it is important to figure those things out, but not to the exclusion of the good things that have happened.
I have learned that some of my crazy childhood did in fact impact me greatly and had to be unlearned in order to lessen the impact. I have also learned that in the midst of that craziness, there were also positive things and people of strength and character, and that those things and those people are also good for me to recognize and to name, in order to let those strengths and that character continue in me.
The good is important too.
