Good people go to therapy… are thinking about starting therapy… support their loved ones in therapy… and TALK about therapy! Therapy can feel daunting but the impact is powerful and can be enlightening and empowering. Tune in as we dive in to a conversation with Maeva and Katrina about their experience in therapy, choosing a therapist, some of their initial fears, and aha moments from the process. Then I switch to the other side of things and chat with Dr. Hanalei Vierra, MFT about being vulnerable, asking for help, giving yourself permission, and how healing ourselves will transform the world.
Some favorite quotes from the show:
“How can you tell someone ‘Oh I’m going to therapy, but hey you don’t need to worry about me’ because I remember that being such a fear of mine.”
“This is a journey I want to embark on to better myself.”
“I can see my progress and that’s been the coolest thing.”
“That shit’s not going to work for anyone involved.”
“You have to be able to show up for yourself before you show up for anyone else.”
“You’re going to benefit from this in a way you never thought of before because there's so many ways that you probably avoid your true self. We’re going to separate your true self and your ego.”
“Beyond the crisis, the work becomes understanding how this crisis got created in the first place.”
“We’re socialized to not respect ourselves. It’s very sad.”
“Just be positive… which means avoid, avoid, avoid your pain, sadness, shame, fear, anger. And that to me is sad and empowers our dark side and it crawls into our lives sideways and holds power.”
“Good people are also sometimes broken people. And that’s okay.”
“Deal with it and understand it so it doesn't run you, but you run it.”
“Rewire yourself so the world can start to benefit.”
“We heal ourselves but we also heal the world around us and that has such a cascading effect.”
You can buy Dr. Vierra’s book, The True Heart of a Man, here: https://www.amazon.com/True-Heart-Man-Masculinity-Relationships/dp/1504346513/
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