The Therapy Gods Are Undefeated | Season Two: Episode 1
Spoiler alert: a year can make a big difference.
The past year has taught me a lot about the ways I differ from the people around me — and the ways those differences reshaped my emotional landscape, creating new ground to explore and learn.
I rediscovered versions of myself that had been left frozen at different stages of life. Parts of me I assumed I’d already outgrown. I thought I could punt those obstacles off to a future version of myself — a Future Katie who would obviously know what to do.
She didn’t.
Lorri Gottlieb writes in Maybe You Should Talk to Someone that there can be a lot of distance in even the tiniest step. One small step away from the cold shadows gave each part of me time to thaw, to be nourished, to find strength, and to heal. From there, trust grew. We are together now — safe, known, and no longer at risk of being abandoned.
At the start of my 41st year, I saw myself running uphill from a fire that gutted the old me. Year forty burned everything that couldn’t come with me.
At the beginning of this 42nd year, the woman in the mirror is unlike any version I’ve met before.
“She has lived a life that licked the fire and danced in the ashes of the bridges she burned and she fears no hell from you.”
Nicole Lyons *Hush*
Season Two is about the emotional work and physical exhaustion it took to cross to the other side and what became possible because I did.
Welcome to Season Two.
That Friend Katie