How many times in a therapeutic environment has an issue from your past come up and you’ve thought: “Here we go again”? I swear I have financed my shrink’s summer home talking about body image issues. I’ve probably sent his kids to a lovely private school from our countless sessions discussing that inevitable impostor syndrome.
Lately, I’ve had an epiphany: Perhaps some of our issues aren’t supposed to be erased or fixed. Is it possible that some of our core issues are meant to stay with us? At a recent lecture of mine, I gave a reading to a woman who raised her hand. As she stood up, I felt a deep loneliness and lack of trust emanating from her.
“When I tune into your energy, I feel a strong sense of abandonment and trust issues. Does this make sense?” I asked her. “No, not at all,” she replied.
There is nothing more unnerving as a psychic than when you are standing in front of a room full of people giving a reading, and the person you have selected keeps shaking their head “no” over and over. In this case I knew I was onto something, I just needed to push a little harder. I repeated what I was feeling to her in a different way.
“I just get the sense that I have been left alone, and that has created a core struggle with trusting people.”
She kept repeating that it didn’t make any sense, but I noticed the woman to her right nodding “yes” with wide eyes and pointing to her.
“Is this your friend sitting next to you?” I asked my “no” chanting client.
“Yes, it is.”
“Miss, can you stand please? Does this make sense to you? You keep nodding your head.”
She looked at her friend and said, “What about when your dad left home when you were 7? There was no explanation, and you didn’t hear from him for a year.”
