Mental Health

θερᾰπείᾱ (therapeia)

θερᾰπείᾱ (therapeia)

Why was I so set on thinking I could not benefit from therapy - from healing? Am I so determined, still, to consider myself whole and self-sufficient? Why would I seek any relationship if I am already complete? Why is emotional wisdom so frequently and thoroughly overlooked in favor of perfectionist intellectualism?

…When without emotional wisdom and attunement Poetry, and Music, and all Creative Art would scarcely exist — and what did would be grasping and lackluster.

Is it because it is not quantifiable? Not counted in busy calendar hours, in papers written or exams passed, in jobs completed, or even in philosophers read…