What You’re Really Leaving Behind This Year: A Therapist’s Emotional Debrief

Therapists don’t move through the year the way most people do. You carry the stories that break people open. You witness the moments that change lives. You hold trauma, grief, ruptures, recoveries, hopes, fears, and the layered complexities of being human. You absorb more than anyone sees. You give more than anyone knows. And you metabolize a year’s worth of emotional weight mostly in silence.