My inaugural blog post was called Personal Disclosures.  And in my post Tale of Two Rookie Moms, I wrote about my therapy work with a stay-home mom who was struggling emotionally.  I told her how hard maternity leave was for me, and how I felt so much more myself, so much more balanced, so much more capable as a mother, by going back to work.   My client seemed grateful that I’d been so self-revealing.  It seemed to free her to consider all her options, and choose her own path.

That’s what personal disclosures by a therapist are supposed to do for clients.  But I’ve always shied away from inserting my own experiences in the therapy session.  Nowadays, that’s much harder to do.

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