people need two therapists: a woman that is gentle, kind and understanding, and a man who tells it like it is and holds you to a high standard. also these two therapists ideally should be married and have had sex roughly nine months before your birth

my therapist has changed my life in a different way than mindfulness/psychedelics have. there’s all this stuff your parents implicitly taught you about how to relate to others that is really worth working through with someone great in order to improve your relationships. however I think the average therapist is basically useless