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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • For therapy to work for you, you have to show up for it in a big way. Therapy is work. Not only is it work, but you have to be ready to work, which often includes letting go of your ego and admitting to yourself what patterns you engage in that aren’t serving you well. While advice giving can occasionally play a small role in therapy, it is not therapy.

    Counterintuitively, many people are really, really attached to their negative patterns that perpetuate feelings of anxiety or depression. They may say they’re unhappy, but they aren’t ready to do anything different to change that.

    Maybe take a look at yourself and try to gauge your own readiness for change. If you’re not ready to acknowledge that you yourself play a huge role in how you feel, therapy will not be productive. If you’re expecting a therapist to do the work for you, therapy will not be productive. If you’re not ready to do work to break out of patterns in your life outside of therapy, therapy will not be productive.










  • but also have to be weary of the fact that some of them are just posing and scamming.

    The amount of people doing this is infinitesimal compared to the actual homeless population. This is basically a right-wing talking point to undercut empathy with people who are experiencing homelessness.

    Also you should never feel bad for not giving a panhandler money, but if you feel called to do more, just find an organization to volunteer with. There are people facing homelessness right now or in the near future in every urban and rural area in the US