Poem #59: Heal
#60 of poetry this is a symbolic poem about the healing process of therapy. i hope you enjoy.
The Best Defence
The hardest part of being a therapist is waiting so long for your client to finally click. Hour-long session after hour-long session, just listening. Giving the patient enough time to reveal everything about themselves, their environment and how they...
Therapy
_This story was written entirely spontaneously, after spending about an hour alone, essentially role-playing the dialogue in my head before writing it. If it seems rather rough or unwieldy, it's because I spent very little time editing it - I didn't...
Therapy
Well, this was it. Standing before the door to Circe's office, Jean took a small moment to compose himself. This whole business had started only a few weeks ago, when he realized how much interest he was starting to take in some very feminine clothes....
Mandrake
After all, all medicine is by definition as 'unnatural' as an aberration is, because the natural result of serious wounds or disease is death, medicine an act of resistance against it, and therapy being a similar process of healing the mind and emotions, if
Freedom; The escape from self-loathing.
What people fail to realize is that I do not say the things I do for attention. I honestly believe them with every fiber of my being. I am one of the most self-loathing people you will ever meet. There is no object, or belief, or subculture on...
Notes For Julius
Subject Name: Julius Aurmorn Age: 9 Grade: 5 Sex: M Species: Rabbit Julius was referred for counseling in response to his extremely quiet demeanor, lack of social skills, and high intelligence. Julius was advanced from 3rd grade to 4th grade...
Come as You Are - Scene 3
Aaron: so you think this "therapy" will help fix my identity? aaron's mother only you can change yourself, but i hope this therapy will help to... persuade you. aaron i don't know if this will help, but it does make me feel dead inside.
Water
"Imagine yourself as a lake... as a large pool of water..." The voice in my ears was soft, steady, mellifluous, calm. "A large... still... body of water... no ripples... no sounds... Just utter, utter stillness... "Now imagine yourself looking at...
Chapter Five (Wendell)
Angie shuts the door. "We need to talk." she says. "What did I do this time?" I ask, "Look, I'm sorry I scared you, I was just-" "I know why you scared me." "You do?" I cock my head to the side waiting for her answer. She grabs my wrist and we...
A Safe Place
Despite the war being waged outside by the weather, the knock from the front door echoed effortlessly throughout the quiet home. The sound proved just enough to wake Ben from his sleep, sitting up quietly, he attempted to determine whether the noise...
Unusual Therapy
Blaine huddled against the back of the bus as the wind whipped around her. She tucked her bushy tail under her belly and pulled her knit cap down tighter over her short hair as the the sleet and rain burrowed into her clothing, quickly soaking into her...