From what I’ve seen over the past few years, your honed skill in focusing your attention and noticing what’s happening and putting what you notice into words allows you to discover what works or is healthy for you from “first principles,” for lack of a better phrase. This is different from most therapy, which circles inward from the outside of each problem. Learning from previous situations can shortcut the process, but therapy rarely has the time to actually teach people to do the thing you’ve learned, which seems to give you a much more gears-level understanding of what’s happening and whether you want to change it and how to go about that.
That’s how it looks from the outside at least. Does it match your experience?
From what I’ve seen over the past few years, your honed skill in focusing your attention and noticing what’s happening and putting what you notice into words allows you to discover what works or is healthy for you from “first principles,” for lack of a better phrase. This is different from most therapy, which circles inward from the outside of each problem. Learning from previous situations can shortcut the process, but therapy rarely has the time to actually teach people to do the thing you’ve learned, which seems to give you a much more gears-level understanding of what’s happening and whether you want to change it and how to go about that.
That’s how it looks from the outside at least. Does it match your experience?