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Hi guys and welcome to the very last couch talks and very, very last episode of anything you need therapy related

of 2020. My name is Kat and I am the host of Unite Therapy and you are listening to the very special

bonus episode of the podcast. I call it Couch Talks. It's the episode where I answer

questions that you guys send in to me. And if you ever have a question, you can send it into me

at Catherine at Unitherepepodcast.com. Now, I know I keep doing this, but today is also going to be a different version of couch talks yet again.

So tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

So today I did want to take some time to talk about the year that is and was 2020.

The year that was a lot of things, but out of all of the things that it was it definitely was not the

year that I planned for I planned for a year with events and weddings and speaking engagements

parties new relationships romantic relationships a lot of hugs some handholding I plan for a year

I could clear my throat in public without fear of being looked at like

I had like dropped a baby on its head like that's the year that I had planned for and so I was

doing some reflecting because every year I do write a letter to that year's version of myself

but as I was prepping to write my letter this year, I found

some old videos. So what I did, as every seven would do is I was procrastinating and I watched

like every video I could find. And one particular video was of me teaching a cycling class.

I was talking about climbing hills that we

didn't ask to climb, right? So we were climbing a hill in the class and I was, you know, using that

metaphor magic. And I think that 2020 was a big mother effing hill that none of us asked to climb,

not one of us. It would be crazy for you to ask to

climb the hill that we just climbed together. So when I started to lean into a place of recovery and

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