first_therapy

What if the real fear isn’t therapy —
it’s the version of you that exists after it?

The one who stops over-explaining.
Stops tolerating the bare minimum.
Stops carrying what was never theirs.
Therapy changes your internal rules quietly.
And that can feel destabilising before it feels empowering.
So you postpone.
You intellectualise.
You say “later”.
Because change asks for honesty you can’t unsee.
If this hit a nerve, you’re closer than you think.

Save this for the day you realise avoidance is often awareness in disguise.