Last Day

Tomorrow is my last day as a Registered Psychotherapist.

I have spent the past nine years committed to clinical practice.

The carousel of huge emotion as my therapies end has been absorbing.

My fear of sharing the news.  Shots of love cracking me open.  Careful listening and support for the tender parts of each client.  Setting boundaries to protect my energy so I can continue through the end.

I have been in turn exhausted, devastated, exhilarated.

I can’t stop watching interviews with astronauts.  Their bravery.   Hurtling into the unknown.  Going before us - leading the way.

It’s easy to compare ourselves to the people around us and create assessments of our lives.

What the past six months have asked me to do is to answer to myself.

And the answer has been - you have to go further.   There is something for you to create that the framework of psychotherapy is not compatible with.

And so further I go.  Committed to finding new lands.

Committed to the massive potential in myself and each human being.

And so I say good-bye to the art of psychotherapy.  I continue to love it.  I can make you a great referral if you want it ;-).  

As has been said many times in my Zoom office the past few weeks, “It is the end but not the end.”

What if there is no end?

Answer to yourself.

Fellow travellers await.