As a relational therapist, my conception of healing first begins with connection. Our advancement as human beings relied on our ability to congregate and communicate. However, we live in a society that now celebrates self-sufficiency, leaving us more lost and lonelier than ever before. In the transition from tribal mentality to complete independence, we began to slowly lose our ability to be intimate beings. Not only have we lost intimacy with others, but with ourselves as well. We have lost the capacity to be intimate with our souls; on top of that, many of us have become fearful of this intimacy, worried it might leave us feeling even more exposed and alone.
