Are you doing the work? Do you need time to heal? Are you showing up for yourself? Do you hold space? Is it a safe space? Do you feel triggered? Are you an empath? Or co-dependent? Maybe you’re processing trauma? Whether I’m talking your language or making your eyes roll to the back of your head it’s impossible to deny that we’ve reached peak therapy speak.
Words and phrases borrowed from therapy have moved out of clinical settings and become mainstream, peppering hashtags, headlines and heated arguments. It’s everywhere from Prince Harry’s memoir to Taylor Swift’s lyrics and Emma Watson’s 22rd Instagram birthday post. Even Holly Willoughby spoke of “a desire to heal” when she returned to her role at This Morning in the wake of her former co-host Phillip Schofield’s revelations that he had lied about his relationship with a much younger colleague.
