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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.

Well, hi and welcome to a special episode of finding your way through therapy.

I am Steve B sound. This was not planned. I hesitated actually to record this. I spoke to my therapist, told me that I had to wait a few days before kind of making my decision so I don't regret it. And ultimately it came to a conclusion that I want to do it in one take. If it sucks, it sucks.

If it doesn't, it doesn't, I don't really care.

But I also want to be able to tell my story, be able to be vulnerable, and just humanized

therapists, because we're people and we go through stuff too.

So the reason why I'm doing this, it's about a week removed from the event.

For those of you who didn't hear, there was a flight from L.A. to Boston that had an incident

on March 5th, 2023. And I was on there with my girlfriend and my two kids. When I got on the

flight, I had actually noticed him just because he had very thick sunglasses on. And part of me was like, I didn't feel comfortable. And I know people

are going to say that's hindsight, but ultimately I really did see that. And I sat down. My two kids

are sitting in the seat in front of me with a woman next to them. I'm sitting with my girlfriend

behind them. And there's a woman next to my girlfriend. I sitting with my girlfriend behind them and there's a woman next to my

girlfriend. I have the outside seat. So flight goes off without a hitch. We end up being in flight for,

I don't know, I can't remember how much time we were up there, but I have about 45 minutes left before

the flight. I decided I'm going to go to a bathroom. The woman next to my girlfriend woke up and I said, okay, I'll just go to the bathroom before we land.

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