[nyxtom]

I also want to recognize the point that there may be some associations with therapy that might make some people uneasy. Take it from me, that therapy is not about talking about all the bad things going on in your life and emotional health is not about trying to feel happy all the time.

To be truly human, means to feel the entire spectrum of emotion; to allow yourself to experience the good and the bad and to be okay with that. Therapy is about introspection, gaining awareness, and understanding impermanence, and the built-in analogy machine we call our brain - driven by the fading memories and experiences of the past.

When you understand that memory is a physiological experience, and that your mind is an analogy machine, then everything you experience - good and bad - has some consequential association with something you previously experienced.

Therapy, at least for me, is about keeping pace with that analogy machine and giving some grace to what it means to be human.