Crutches

Daily Meditation 1,195–6/18/2025

Firstly, I am not a therapist. I’ve had it when I was much, much younger. My degree is in behavioral psych, I am not licensed etc, etc. — don’t listen to me, I have no idea what I’m talking about as a non-professional living in our credentialist society!

But. As everyone else, I have thoughts on things and my way of doing things, which I like to share!

I believe things like therapy certainly have their place in helping some peoples’ lives sometimes.

Here’s the reframe:

Therapy should be perceived like crutches.

When you break your leg, a good doctor sets it, throws it in a cast, and gives you a good ol’ fashioned set of crutches to hobble around.

You heal, your leg hurts less, and you slowly begin putting weight on that leg.
Then one day, it’s healed as good as it will get and you put the crutches in your garage (where they sit for the next 10+ years).

You don’t keep leaning on the crutches forever. The broken bone heals as good as it gets then you move on.

Therapy is also (my $.02) not a permanent solution. We all have “trauma” we go through, and one persons’ trauma is shrug-offable to the next person. One man will go to war and kill a…