Working with a new therapist after your previous counselor of twelve years retires is like being on one of those shows such as Married At First Sight. Here is a stranger to whom you have to divulge your innermost thoughts and feelings to with the intention of spending the foreseeable future together.
Karen, my former therapist, was with me since just a few months after my mom’s death and into my vision loss (Retiring Minds Please Don’t Go). She knew everything about me, was there when my husband became gravely ill with a cardiac crisis and during the deaths of both his parents. Karen knew all the pieces that make up my life. Now, with Jen, in addition to sharing what is going on inside my head, I must also explain to her the players in my world, plus provide the context of all that has happened during my entire existence.
Of course, unlike the television series, if I felt that Jen was not the correct person for me, I could move on. But I like Jen very much. I just don’t know her nor she me.
And yet we have both said, “I do.”
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