I Should Have Had Counseling Years Ago

The cost of waiting fifty-one years is not a single dramatic breaking point. It's the accumulated weight I didn't know I was carrying.

I can identify six times in my life when I probably should have gone for counseling. Six times when the ground shifted beneath me and I chose to keep moving instead of stopping to feel and process what had just happened. Six times when busyness became the drug that allowed me to escape reality when what I should have been doing was handling reality.

The …