Welcome to The Therapy Edit. I'm your host, Psychotherapist and author Anna Martha. I will be bringing

you bite-sized episodes twice a week full of tips, wise words from expert guests and insights to

support your mental well-being. Hey, welcome to today's episode of The Therapy Edit, where I share an anonymous confession from the therapy room.

This is from a listener who left this confession anonymously for me to chat through.

And it's all about change, really.

It's all about standing on the edge of change knowing that how things are is not okay

for you, but you just do not know what to do about it. So if you are standing on the precipice

of change or you're in a certain circumstance where you're like, oh, I just, I don't want to be

here anymore, but I don't know what to do from now, then this episode is going to be,

it's going to really speak to you. So this is the confession. When I take my annual leave this

Christmas, I'm certain I won't face going back. That place has been suffocating me. I'm too

cowardly to hand in my notice. I just want to say, like,

even just being able to say that, I don't want to do this anymore. I'm done. I don't want to

do this anymore. That's a really brave thing to do because us humans, we're creatures of habit and familiarity and wanting to change things

is a really, really, it's a really brave thing to do to say, I don't want to do this anymore.

It's like sticking a stake into the ground, a flag in the ground and saying, right, I can't do

this anymore and getting to this

point where I know I need, things need to change. So this listener, you know, if you're listening

to this, you say you're too cowardly, but actually I think you're really brave. You just don't know

what the next step is. You just don't know you can't see a way forward,

but there will be a way forward. And for anyone listening who's just feeling really stuck,

there will, there will be a way forward. Sometimes it's really helpful to think back to the big

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