Let me bring you into my recent therapy session.
Yes, we’re going behind the curtain today—not that I ever hide much of anything. But this one feels rich. Provocative even. Maybe exactly what someone in Kit’s Café needs to hear.
Picture me plopping onto the therapist’s couch, exhausted after more than two weeks of nonstop family time, graduations, miles of driving—not just between states, but between countries.
She could tell immediately that I had arrived with a different energy. A bit run down. A lot deflated than usual.
After listening to my monologue about all the things—the current trials and tribulations, the cold I can’t seem to shake, the lingering fatigue—she offered something unexpected.
“You’re normally such a joyful person,” she said.
“It’s okay to be a little down right now. How would you like to take care of yourself in the coming days and weeks?”
