The process of psychotherapy is one of the most intimate experiences a person can allow themselves and enable. Therefore, it is very difficult to show someone what it all looks like and how it works. Going through this process, I felt the need to share all these benefits with others. This kind of exposure is the scariest thing I have ever forced myself to do and something I would never have done if I had not been in the aforementioned process. This is me, with all my insecurities, flaws, and most intimate thoughts. This is the most vulnerable part of me. And now it is here in front of you. The process itself lasts half a year and the changes are visible on a physical and psychological level. It began with the need to change a rejecting type of attachment, and it gave rise to various problems, defense mechanisms, inherited and acquired traumas. It made me aware of the war as one of the important factors for adopting defense mechanisms that will make everyday functioning so difficult later in life. It also made me aware of the wrong beliefs that hold me back from being who I really am – the authentic me, which is buried beneath all those mechanisms and beliefs.
This step forward is my permission to accept and nurture who I really am, but also an invitation to others to do the same.
Sonja Savić
May 12 – May 26, 2023.
