A short monologue by Nick Stumbo reflecting on therapy as a form of maintenance for the mind and emotions. He summarizes therapy as “someone else putting language to your experience,” describes the therapist’s role in helping parse emotions and experiences, and frames therapy as an unbiased third-party support beneficial for the brain, heart, and life experience.
My therapist has said to me that really all therapy is is just someone else putting language to your experience. And you know, what I told him when we first started was I feel like this is just going to be me vomiting all over the table, and you're going to kind of help me parse out what is what and show me what's where. And that's not a really great analogy when talking to your therapist about the therapy he's doing. But I've just seen that that it's something that he is able to affirm me and has tools to help me process and ask really good questions. And so really, it is main for your brain, for your heart, for your experience. And so I think that that's why it's such an effective tool is you have this unbiased third party speaking into hearing about helping you navigate your experience in your life. And I think that that's always beneficial.
