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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 6 Jul \ on: Seeking advice for finding a good therapist AskSN
While therapy can help sort toxic kinds of thoughts, the "dumping ground" is nature in the sense that if you are out in it, you will naturally tend to re-normalize your existence. The esoteric term applied to this process is "grounding" and the state you describe implies that you are not getting grounding fully where whatever it is that is being held on to is not yet let go of.
There's definitely a part of this that is me holding onto stuff, and seeking nature, or grounding of some other kind, should help.
The reason I'm seeking a therapist though is for advice in an area they are trained in, an area where my intuition is lacking no matter how much peace I find otherwise.
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One useful activity then is to keep a log or journal of the stuff going on in your life, and what your emotional response is to it. You need to develop your own personal vocabulary--or figure out how the language of your intuition is speaking. That is something that a therapist may or may not be good at, but the good ones are only showing you the stuff that you are saying that you did not realize you were saying.