A Pep Talk From Ukraine
The past six or seven months or so, I have been seeing a new therapist who has been walking me through a "trauma timeline" of my life. It is about as intense as it sounds. We started at my earliest memory and have discussed anything I remember from my twenty-three years that at all doesn't sit right with me. Whether it is traumatic, sad or unsettling. As we have been working on it, I have thought more about my life story than I probably ever have. Though it is mostly the hard things we have discussed, sometimes it reminds me of positive moments or memories. As I was describing the twists and turns of my life to my counsellor, I remembered an instance where something that was really troubling turned into something really positive and I will never forget it. I wrote down some point form notes and wanted to sit down here and document it and share it with anyone who might stumble across this post. I worked at a car dealership in Calgary for two ish years when I first move...