Wendy Smith Counseling PLLC

Recently, one of my clients told me that every item of clothing she was wearing at our session “feels like me”. She added how hard it had been for her to buy each one–indeed, how hard it is for her, generally, to risk reaching for something–even something as mundane as a sweater–that she really, really wants. I pointed out to her that each of those items of clothing was like a metaphor for pieces of her true self that she has been struggling so hard to reclaim. A very young part of her that still lives inside her (a part from the early years of primary school)knows who she is and what her truths and passions are. Our work is to reconnect that little girl with the young woman in my office. We do this by gradually healing wound after wound that the girl-woman incurred in the intervening years. Once all the blocks to natural growth have finally been removed, becoming will resume, and self-comfort and blossoming will follow.

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