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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Listening to Adele

I used to listen to these albums after him. Adele and Christina Perri were the soundtrack of my life for an entire year. When I first started seeing my therapist about three years ago I introduced her to Adele. I didn't have a lot of conversations with my therapist. I didn't want to talk, but I shared my music. My music was being used to express how I was feeling on the inside, and although I never realized until today why I decided so long after I stopped seeing my therapist to return to this specific one. I've seen a few different therapists, and if I really wanted to I could've gone to a different therapist for a lot cheaper. So what was it that brought me back to her? I never even talked with her. How could I have made a connection with her? I was in an extreme moment of desperation, but not the self pity kind. I'm saying I woke up one day and said I was so tired of living the way I was. It had been four years since the moment of truth and it was still controlling me. I asked myself how I was feeling, and reality hit me: I am not happy.  I am still numb. I am not feeling. Then I tried getting ahold of my therapist In three different ways. I checked my phone constantly that day, until I got a response. I was instantly relaxed. My anxiety went away for a little bit. I find it coincidental that on one of the first visits back to her she said that I had given her Adele. Yes Alice, I did and that's why I am here. You knew that my music was a gift. I never put anything above work. I don't request days off very often. I feel guilty even looking at the days off book. I take so much responisbility for my job. I made going to therapy a priority however. I committed myself to it, and I am thankful for that. This is progress.