That's my counseling assignment. The counselor said,
"Go home and write about why I'm important to take care of."
I told her I needed her to write that in the form of a doctor's order so I felt I really should do it, and also that I had permission to do it.
I have it on a piece of paper with her signature.
One of the main reasons I'd decided to try counseling, I told her, was just to practice asking for help. I grew up taking care of my mother and not myself, and not even asking for help for myself.
I also told her that recently I'd gone to the grocery store and just could not figure out what to buy to feed myself, and I had turned around and walked out without buying any food at all, now that I'm just cooking [or not] for me alone again.
"Why don't you deserve to be fed too?" she asked.
Sigh.
These simple, obvious, therapy-style questions can just flummox me.
Why didn't she ask instead why I thought Lincoln didn't let the South secede? I have a lot to say about that, and it doesn't leave me feeling like a stuffed animal with the stuffing knocked out.
Still, I do secretly like those sort of therapy questions, and they give me hope that I can and will take care of myself better.
"Go home and write about why I'm important to take care of."
I told her I needed her to write that in the form of a doctor's order so I felt I really should do it, and also that I had permission to do it.
I have it on a piece of paper with her signature.
One of the main reasons I'd decided to try counseling, I told her, was just to practice asking for help. I grew up taking care of my mother and not myself, and not even asking for help for myself.
I also told her that recently I'd gone to the grocery store and just could not figure out what to buy to feed myself, and I had turned around and walked out without buying any food at all, now that I'm just cooking [or not] for me alone again.
"Why don't you deserve to be fed too?" she asked.
Sigh.
These simple, obvious, therapy-style questions can just flummox me.
Why didn't she ask instead why I thought Lincoln didn't let the South secede? I have a lot to say about that, and it doesn't leave me feeling like a stuffed animal with the stuffing knocked out.
Still, I do secretly like those sort of therapy questions, and they give me hope that I can and will take care of myself better.
