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Lori Gottlieb on How to Get the Most Out of Therapy

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The Work of Therapy

The work is being honest with yourself about not just who you are but who other people in your life might be and what their limitations are. Being able to be an adult and move into adulthood which is really hard because most of us carry around that childlike need to create a better past than we had. I think that sometimes if we can't accept that we try to make everybody around us create the childhood for us that we never had. And it's not their job to do that. So we have to create abetter adulthood for ourselves keeping in mind what we didn't get as a child. And that's a lot of work.

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