Gina Smith LMFT

09/18/2026

This is exactly how I see it

. . . psychotherapy needs to be embarked upon with caution, even trepidation and humility, since one is always exploring unknown seas when dealing with the unconscious, and therefore likely to learn at least as much as one is able to teach. A basic requirement . . . is that it be a joint venture. There are no experts with all the answers; and we cannot guide another where we haven’t been ourselves. The most one can do - and then only with the patient’s cooperation - is help draw out the healing potential latent within the individual.

Maureen B. Roberts from StarDreaming www.maureenbroberts.com/stardreaming
Artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein

08/26/2026

08/07/2026

safe place.

08/02/2026

Yes

06/22/2026

Almost all of them

06/22/2026

Makes sense

06/20/2026

People will create versions of you in their head.

Some will make you better than you are.

Some will make you worse.

And no matter what you do, they will often hold on to the version that serves their story the most. 🧭

Your job is not to spend your life managing someone else’s imagination.

Your job is to remain honest about who you are. 🌙

You cannot control how others perceive you.

You cannot make them see the truth if they are committed to their distortion.

You can explain, defend, prove — and still, they will believe what they need to believe.

So stop trying.
Stop exhausting yourself correcting every misunderstanding.

The people who truly know you will see the real you.

The ones who don’t?

Let them have their version.

It’s not your responsibility to manage their narrative.

Your only responsibility is to stay true to yourself.

To act with integrity.

To know who you are — and let that be enough.

Let them think what they want.

You know your truth.

And that’s all that matters. 🕯


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