We are a highly-intelligent species and yet we are often not able to resolve or often even recognize the stuff going on in our own heads. Why is that?
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Why don’t you cut your own hair?
Because there are pieces of you that you cannot see due to the limitations of your perspective.
To take this metaphor even further, a therapist is like a large setup of mirrors that reflect in ways to let you see yourself from different angles, angles you’ve probably never seen before. The awkward thing is that you still have to cut your own hair, since the therapist can’t cut it for you. But with the therapists help, they can guide your hands to the right places and help you find the right angles to cut.
At the risk of breaking the metaphor, the end goal of a therapist is in helping you develop enough perspective that you can stand outside of yourself, like an astral projection or a clone, and see yourself more fully, decide what parts you like and trim the parts you don’t.
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