We Do Therapy: Our Story

An Introduction to the "We Do Therapy" series!

This series was launched in September of 2024. You can find the initial content from the first week at these links:

• We Do Therapy: Our Story

• We Do Therapy: Early Warning Signs

• We Do Therapy: Then Came the Wedding

• We Do Therapy: Then Came Marriage

• We Do Therapy: Then Came Healing

• Also See:
  When Trauma Marries Trauma
  McMusing: What Do Marriage and Divorce Statistics Tell Us?

Introduction

Scott and I celebrated our 45th anniversary on July 14th. In honor of that miracle, we have chosen to share parts of our story about two survivors of childhood trauma who should not have made it to this milestone. All four therapists who have helped us over the past ten years would agree. We reached this milestone in our marriage because We Do Therapy. We hope our sharing will help others understand that their struggles may not be what they appear to be and there is hope in healing.

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Our Story

Scott and I arrived on our wedding day hauling in stacks of baggage behind us. Some of our guests may have had an idea that there was baggage—specifically our parents—who were likely relieved that we had found each other and fallen in love. So were we, but we had no idea the impact that ignored and repressed baggage would have on our lives. This is our story.

We believe what we learned on this ten-year healing journey is worth sharing. We agreed that we would only do this behind a paywall—both as a protective boundary and because we have invested much of our retirement finances into therapy—We Do Therapy was both expensive and worth it.