How are you today?

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Found a therapy center in my area that focuses on PTSD. They even have an intense outpatient program. So I'll see them on Wednesday. I'm so nervous and all my therapists have let me down over the years. But I'm positive and optimistic. Someone will be able to help me.

Perhaps if I change something you said you will understand how therapy works:

"Someone will be able to help me to help myself."

If you are thinking the therapist is going to be able to change stuff for you, then therapy won't work. The process of peeling your own onion is one that you ultimately have to do yourself.

Peeling the onion means that you take off one layer at a time, examine it, work with it set it aside and then peel the next layer.

An effective therapist will ask you questions that you ask yourself (ergo the classic 'and how does that make you feel?').

It took me a few years to get how therapy is suppose to work, but once I did 'get it' a lot of interesting changes took place inside of me and a lot of things got easier. Which may not always be better.... a slight difference.

I really hope you form an effective team with a therapist.