Therapy isn’t magic; we just all have a lot of tangled-up ropes. Every one of us. What therapy does over long amounts of time, depending on how tangled your ropes have become, is it helps you pull on one little string and realize, dadgummit, everything is more tangled up than you thought. For about six to eight weeks, counseling just kind of ticks you off. You’re not sure you want to do it. But then, magically, a knot gets untangled.

