Whistling in the Dark

This episode is a rather special one. And by special I mean not like the others. My guest is not in the public eye. She hasn't written a best selling book. She doesn’t have a tv show or movie coming out. And she’s never played professional sports. So… who is she? Her name is Karen. And she’s my therapist. Therapy and in particular my therapist Karen has changed my life in words that are hard to describe. There has been no one magical moment, no wand waving or bumper sticker platitude that flipped a  very stubborn switch stuck somewhere in a childhood filled with violence, chaos, affairs, serious boundary issues and more rotting dysfunction than this or any other podcast has time for. NO, instead it has been a 3 year process of digging down deep, deprogramming, slowly changing my perspective to encompass newer healthier ones, bringing consciousness to old, destructive patterns and god damn it, doing the work tasked to me by someone who has gently, and lovingly guided me through some truly painful and heart wre