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Happy Wednesday and welcome back to another episode of Couch Talks, which is a bonus episode of You Need Therapy podcast. And Couch Talks comes out every Wednesday, and it's where I answer your questions. You email in. And then You Need Therapy, the normal episode comes out every Monday. If you guys have questions, you want me to answer. You can send them to Catherine, K-A-T-H-R-Y-N

at you need therapy podcast.com. I do want to say if some of you guys are like, I sent in a

question a long time ago, she hasn't answered it. Some questions I'm saving for actual

episodes because there's too much detail to go in them.

I know there's some questions that I've gotten about trauma and memories and trauma bonds

and those I'm saving for full on episodes.

Hopefully I can get one of those episodes out pretty soon.

But today we are going to answer a couple questions that I have ready that you guys have sent in

and the first one. And by the way, I'm keeping all of these questions anonymous, even though I

know some of you guys don't really care. But I'm just for the safety of everybody, I'm just

going to keep them all anonymous unless there's a reason that I would need to share somebody's

identity. We're just going to make them kind of blanket there's a reason that I would need to share somebody's identity.

We're just going to make them kind of blanket.

And plus also I get a lot of questions that are very similar.

And so I kind of jumble them into the same question and kind of paraphrase some of them

together.

So that being said, this question comes from an anonymous listener.

And it says, I am about to start going to therapy this month and I really struggle with being vulnerable. I'm very much a hey this happened to me

but I'm fine type of person. I don't like to make a big deal out of things so I downplay them.

I'm going to therapy because I know I genuinely

need healing. So I was wondering if you have any advice on how to be vulnerable with my therapist.

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