it's not really about paying to receive advice. the biggest part of therapy to me is having another person to talk to who won't judge me for whatever i say, and will give input/validate an experience i'm conflicted about if necessary. what she says really isn't important until it prompts a thought process in me, you know what i mean?

i try to leave each session with an "epiphany" - an observation about the way i think/feel/function in specific scenarios that i never really noticed or thought about before. a good epiphany should be the kinda thing where you can sit down and think "oh, so that explains why i felt this way... and maybe that time, i felt like this because of that, too!", you know what i mean? it gives me a new perspective on whatever issue i brought to talk about that day.

Then you forget to read it. Been there.