Are you by chance a bit bored of looking at this same sliced section of a tree I’ve put up here over and over again? If so, I get it! I sometimes get tired of looking at the same thing over and over again. I sometimes get tired of being me, every day, over and over again!
One of the beauties of therapy, though, is that we get to look at the same thing, over and over again, and sometimes, or even often, see something new, novel, or unknown.
This slice of tree is a subsection of the whole. It’s a part. The whole tree is more than the sum of its parts, but the parts are important, too. Parts tell stories. They give us access to the inside. And they are full of depth, texture, lines, color, shape, cracks, and contrast.
This tree slice is like each of us. It’s like you. We’ll keep looking at it. But over time, we’ll see it anew. We’ll see or feel or know things we weren’t able to before.
And the tree will change, too.
