This Close To Okay

by Leesa Cross-Smith

So much of therapy was practicality and giving people a much-needed pass to relax when they needed to or be weird when they needed to. To free their minds from doing what they felt like they should be doing if it always went against what they wanted to do. To ask questions like why when the client had never considered it.

Even people without a history of mental illness had to go to great lengths to protect their mental health.

After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.

“You have to do things when you have a chance to do them,”

(See. There is soft light. There are small mercies.)