Hi Anita!

Thank you so much again for your insight. Wow, you have helped me so much over the years. I’ve been following your advice from a few weeks ago on trying to talk to little Charlotte and listen to what she needs with regards to her relationship with her parents and other things. Specifically, I purchased a journal about the shadow self and have been going through the exercises and prompts daily. Hopefully that will help me tune into her!

Regarding my therapist, thank you as well – this all makes sense. I think I will keep her for a couple months longer and see where life takes me. If I’m still feeling much better, I think I will take a break then. It is daunting to let go especially when your therapist hasn’t worked on creating a plan for afterwards, but as we discussed, I don’t have unlimited funds.

I am certainly very excited about the CDC guildelines too and it’s made me feel so much more optimistic about the future. I really hope it helps to encourage the rest of the population to get vaccinated too! Great news to have ahead of summer. 🙂

Charlotte

Hi Anita,

Very good point about bringing that concern up to my therapist! Thank you – I most certainly will. I like to think I am honest and open with her 95% of the time, but with this issue, my people pleasing issues seem to be coming to the surface. Now that I see that, I think I will better be able to talk with her openly about it. Sometimes it just takes running things by someone else, so thank you again 🙂

We definitely share many of the same views. It is really so helpful to find someone like you out there in the internet world who has similar views to me and is so dedicated to mental health. I hope you have a wonderful day, Anita!

Charlotte