Free therapy

Earlier this week book author Caroline Moss tweeted, “If you go to therapy quote tweet this with the best thing you learned at therapy that way everyone else can get free therapy.” The hundreds of replies are filled with excellent advice. Examples:

• Don’t react. Sit with it until you know what you feel. Sit with it.

• It’s ok to not be busy and to not offer to others a reason I do or don’t do each thing.

• Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing things that you hadn’t learned yet.

• Anxiety causes me to put things off a lot and in group therapy we worked on “the 15 minute rule”. If something feels impossibly overwhelming I set a timer to work on it for 15 minutes and that takes away that “I’m about to swan dive into a bottomless hole” feeling.

• The only things I owe people are straightforwardness and kindness.

— MF