touching base

touched base with my psychotherapist to send out love due a specific date. the exchange was exactly the conversation i needed to have at this specific moment in time! sometimes in the midst of other people's messes present in my life i forget that i'm thriving! those messes are not mine, that's not me, and my decisions to strictly regulate traffic, in a manner of speaking, in my life were great ones. in fact, i had begun doing that a couple of years ago. i just resumed that momentum after a break to see things from a distance and gain perspective. everything has a time, a purpose, a rhyme and a reason, sometimes it just needs some time to clarify itself.

can't believe it will be 5 years post-discharge this winter ... she remains proud of me handling it all so well on my own (but then again, her parting words on discharge were 'you will never need therapy again in your life!'). i learned my lessons and i remain watchful and vigilant every day. i am a survivor!