The courage to do therapy

The courage to do therapy is profound, because it asks a person to walk toward what they would otherwise be avoiding.

• It’s the courage to face yourself: To peel back the armour of ego, to meet the parts of you that are wounded, ashamed, or buried. That is not easy — it takes more bravery than denial.

• It’s the courage to feel: Therapy is not about ideas alone; it’s about sensation, grief, rage, tenderness. Feeling fully is risky because it changes us — yet that’s where freedom lives.

• It’s the courage to be seen: To let another human witness your truth, without hiding. This dismantles the isolation that trauma builds, but it can feel unbearably raw.

• It’s the courage to risk change: Therapy means stepping out of familiar suffering into unknown possibility. The known armour often feels safer than the unknown self.

In short: the courage to do therapy is the courage to live. It’s the moment someone decides, “I will no longer be ruled by survival alone — I want to reclaim my life.”