Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.

I'm your host, Steve Biesel.

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

wide array of conversations you can have in therapy.

I also talk to guests about therapy, their experience with therapy, and how psychology is present in many places in their lives.

I also share personal stories. So please join me on this journey about therapy.

Hi and welcome to episode 84 of finding your way through therapy. I'm your host, Steve Bison.

If you haven't listened to episode 83 yet, please go back and listen to it.

Amy Timer was amazing and obviously had a lot of wisdom and has a lot of experience.

So please go back and listen to that.

Today I want to talk a little bit about me.

And why do I want to talk about me? Well, first of all, it's my show and I do whatever I want with this podcast, number one. But more importantly, I think that a lot of people have asked me why I do my job. And this is something that, you know, while I love doing this podcast, people are like, well, why you do a podcast? Why are you a therapist now? So I never know where to start this story,

but I think that I'll start off where my book starts off. When I was 12 years old, my best

friend died in a fire. He was found with his brother in his arms in a closet trying to survive,

unfortunately the smoke inhalation kind of got

to him. And at that point, I was really feeling sad, lonely, and isolated at that point. He was a good

friend. We played soccer. We played football together. And I couldn't go to the funeral because his family

was a practicing Orthodox Jewish family. So I wasn't able to go to the funeral because his family was a practicing Orthodox Jewish family.

So I wasn't able to go to the funeral.

So I ended up just sitting in my bathtub at that point and just worrying and thinking about

everything and what does that mean.

And I really had time to process.

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