I'm not ashamed to hold my hands up and admit that I have been attending counselling or therapy sessions now for nearly 18 months. There's a lot of stigma surrounding therapy from what it actually involves to how it will end up making you feel during or even after.

For me therapy has been the most life changing journey and one that I don't think I'll ever regret embarking on. I had a lot of negative beliefs surrounding therapy when I first started attending, anything from not thinking it will work and will instead make me worse, to thinking it was something for people who had been through a horrific life event that they needed help moving on from.

I hadn't been through a horrific life event nor did I need help moving on from anything. The whole reason I sought therapy was to help improve my mental health and wellbeing. Without it I don't think I would be where I am today and I am so glad I walked through the doors of that therapy room that cold early November day in 2016. 

Because I am so much better now for it.

Here are the 10 things therapy has taught me so far (although I could probably say way more)...