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Kelsey Parker

Happy Place

CHAPTER

How Counseling Can Help You Deal With Anxiety

"I don't think anyone would expect anyone to do that on their own it's such a huge thing to go through without someone going okay you're taking care of Tom and the kids let me take care of you," she said. "It's all right to ask for help especially in something like what you've been through."

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Speaker 2
I mean I don't think anyone would expect anyone to do that on their own it's such a huge thing to go through without someone
Speaker 3
going okay you're taking care of Tom and the
Speaker 2
kids let me take care of you you know that's a given that people would want to do that yeah you got to let more of that in I know
Speaker 1
and that's what that I'm meeting a therapist for the show and that's what she keeps saying to me you just you're so at the bottom of the pit you need to put yourself at the tub but I'm like I find it really hard
Speaker 2
I think a lot of women do that in general yeah in life outside of it when you've got kids in the situation yeah you kind of I think that's perhaps a historic thing for women that we've felt we've always got to take care of everyone deal with all manner of circumstances unfurling but actually it's all right to ask for help
Speaker 3
especially in something like what you've been through you know it's I
Speaker 2
think it's imperative that you ask for help how's how's the counseling has it helped you I
Speaker 1
guess well I'm not someone who would like necessarily seek help from a counselor but it has helped it's like definitely opened my eyes to things and made me think a little bit more maybe ways that I didn't didn't think so it has it's yeah I don't know I don't know how I
Speaker 2
feel you know again maybe there's no answer to that because I've done therapy on off over the years and sometimes I think I'm so getting somewhere like I'm you know the anxiety is getting easier whatever it is and other times I think why
Speaker 1
am I doing this I don't you know
Speaker 2
I

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