1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Katherine, but you can call me Cat. I'm 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: a therapist who lives in Nashville, and I'm also just 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: a regular human like you. I learned that there would 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: never be enough outside validation to fill the void of 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: the inside validation that I needed for myself. I'm inviting 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: you into conversations about what it's like to live fully 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: in a world where we've become accustomed to shut parts 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: of ourselves off. I always joke like I go into 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: performance because I'm like tinker Bill. Please clap for me 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: and tell me I'm good. Here, you will find a 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: space that welcomes in discomfort, deep breaths, tough questions. Did 12 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: you cut me off because you didn't want to talk 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: about your feelings? I didn't want and hard truth. Your 14 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: inner critic is a part of you that is wounded, 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: a place where figuring your ship out is just as 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: fun as it is scary. Life is important, it's actually 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: really long. There's a lot of things I'm gonna happening, 18 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of things you can do. Over 19 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: the past eight years of being a therapist, I've become 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,319 Speaker 1: more increasingly aware of how the power of conversation can 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: create mean full change in people's lives, and I remember 22 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: writing the pain of facing your mortality at is not normal, 23 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: and at the same time more increasingly aware of how 24 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: rare those kinds of conversations we have in therapy sessions 25 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: actually are out in the wild. I feel such an 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: immense amount of gratitude that I can say it because 27 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: there was a point where I couldn't. I love my job. 28 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Like love my job. There isn't anything I could see 29 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: myself doing other than this Right now, however, I've experienced 30 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: a lot of loneliness knowing that the vulnerability and authentic, 31 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: life changing conversations I have in my office are uncommon. 32 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: A baby or a young child needs the caregiver to 33 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: look in their eyes and hold them and say I 34 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 1: love you just for being on this planet and being mine, 35 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: and none of us got that perfectly. I decided I 36 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: didn't want to keep watching it continue to be this way, 37 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: so I started You Need Therapy podcast right now. I'm 38 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: inviting you into a space or the freedom to be 39 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: ourselves is infinite. It's not just a decision you can 40 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: make like that logic. It's not rational, it's emotional. My 41 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: hope is that what you listen to here will jump 42 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: start conversations that are meaningful in order to help others 43 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: feel less alone and create a deeper understanding of ourselves 44 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: and others. Because now to me, I hope more and 45 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: more humans start to realize that therapy isn't reserved for 46 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: people who have something wrong with them, therapies for all 47 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: of us. You may not want it, but the truth 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: is you need therapy.