Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy.

The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide

array of conversations you can have in and about therapy.

Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, and how psychology

and therapy are present in many places in their lives. With lots of authenticity and a touch

of humor, here is your host, Steve Bisson. Thank you. Still getting used to this new intro. I

always want to go back to what I used to do,

but obviously it's a different situation. So welcome to episode 104. If you haven't listened to episode

103 yet, please go and listen to it. Lane Kennedy and Tamar Medford. We just had a great time.

We talked about DNA. We talked about sobriety. We talked about behavioral change. And really what this

leads up to is the episode for

today, which is for this episode, I want to talk about change. So, you know, what does change mean?

Well, usually means that something has not been working for you. Maybe it has been working for you for a

while, but it no longer serves you.

But change is about doing something different in order to get to a goal that you want to get.

And one of the first things I kind of remind people who want change in therapy is that the change will never, ever, ever come from me.

And most people are surprised by that.

And what I really remind a lot of individuals,

and this is something that you've heard me talk about in the podcast, is that I offer you to tools,

but the change has to come from you. I can give you the best tools in the world. You decide,

no, I don't want to use those tools. There's not a whole lot I can do. So what I think the first thing that

you got to understand if you go to therapy is the change won't come from the therapist. The

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