Audre & Bash Are Just Friends

by Tia Williams

you know when couples are so giddy it’s like all self-awareness evaporates and they frolic around like they invented being in love?

Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fear.

Therapy is manipulative. Is it trauma, or just a generic bad memory? Is it gaslighting, or someone’s perspective clashing with yours? Is she a sociopath, or just hungry?”

I hear a light-skinned Bieber song.

“Also, I’m not a lesbian. I’m bisexy.”

The advice she’d given was logical. But it was also bullshit. Because there was nothing logical about falling for someone. It was sloppy, thirsty, embarrassing, uncool, irrational. All this time, she’d basically been advising people to put out a four-alarm fire with a water gun.

I did need to experience real life to make me a better therapist.

This was what her clients had been feeling all these years? This was what she’d secretly dismissed as over-the-top drama? Well. The universe was paying her back.

making the ‘right’ choices doesn’t guarantee you a happy ending. So, follow your own path. Take chances, be wild, make mistakes, get messy, be colorful. Be true to whoever you are.”