Today I got to attend our weekly supervision with the Psychologist and this week was about a few new types of therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Compassionate Therapy. I won't go into them because that isn't what this post is about but what the session made me realise a few things about myself:
1. How far I have come managing my anxiety.
2. Recognise objectively how and why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can make things worse and how it did infact make me worse.
3. That number two is not actually necessary a reflection on the person themselves but a reminder that different things work differently for different people.
4. That mindfulness really was what galvanized my recovery.
5. The fact that alongside mindfulness I learnt to use compassionate therapy to get rid of the things that were negatively impacting my anxiety and working harder on the things that positively impact.
