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If your goal in therapy is to ‘be happy,’ you might want to rethink that. Here’s why.

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 Sam Dylan Finch11 Comments

If your goal for therapy is impossible? You might give up before you ever get to the good stuff.

Mental Health

7 Signs That Online Therapy Might Be Right For You

October 15, 2017January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch9 Comments

Somehow, in just a couple of weeks, I'd disclosed more to my online therapist than I had with my previous therapist that I'd worked with for over a year.

Mental Health

5 Ways to Lovingly Support Someone With C-PTSD

September 14, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch10 Comments

It can be as simple as noticing. As simple as validating us. As simple as saying, “I believe you.”

Mental Health

9 Affirmations You Deserve to Receive If You Have a Mental Illness

August 29, 2015January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch2 Comments

I am so, so proud of you for the work that you do, day in and day out, to keep going.

Mental Health

It’s Been a Year Now and I Still Miss My Old Therapist

August 3, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch9 Comments

I am the person I am today because there was a therapist who believed in me.

Mental Health

I Believe in You: An Open Letter to Teens with Mental Health Struggles

December 5, 2014January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch8 Comments

Photo: unsplash.com I can’t pinpoint exactly when my battle with mental illness began, but I do know that by the…

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8 Things That I Learned In Therapy

November 20, 2014August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch22 Comments

Therapy didn't result in a singular epiphany that changed everything for me. There wasn't a light bulb moment when I…

Read More 8 Things That I Learned In Therapy

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