The Stick Figure Exercise

I invite clients to draw a stick figure on each side of their paper, one on the left and one on the right. I then really invite them to create a whole story around each of these people. Who would the grounded person be? What job would they have? How are they making money if at all? Are they dating if at all?" The more we can get to know both sides of ourselves that are in this vague unsettling conflict internally, the more we can come to understand them," she says.