Empower Counseling PLLC

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your spouse and can’t figure out how to say it, this is for you. Marriage counseling isn’t the only answer but understanding what you actually need is where it starts.

There’s a point where it stops being about not knowing what to do, and starts being about what you’re still willing to tolerate.

Not everything needs more understanding. Some things need a decision.

Watching reality TV with a therapist: Every argument becomes a case study and every cast member apparently needs a better friend group! 😂

Everyone says they want emotionally healthy friends until they’re trying to get the details and the therapist starts explaining everyone’s childhood wounds! 😂

Tag your therapist friend who absolutely refuses to pick a side.

This is for every friend who says “I’m fine” while their entire face is saying otherwise! 🙈😂

There is nothing more humbling than trying to talk trash with a friend who insists on being emotionally mature.

I just needed April to agree with me ONE time.

Not “she made a poor choice.”

Not “she seems difficult.”

I needed something with a little seasoning on it.

Unfortunately, some people are too healthy to be useful in these moments.

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There is no word more suspicious than a woman saying, “It’s fine.” Especially when she says it casually, walks in like nothing happened, and expects her therapist friend not to notice that her entire nervous system just entered the room first.

April heard “fine” and immediately started gathering evidence. 😂

This is why having a therapist friend is both comforting and deeply inconvenient. You cannot lie, deflect, minimize, or casually skip over the part where you were absolutely not fine.

Follow for more funny therapist skits, friendship humor, and the tiny ways we accidentally expose ourselves in conversation.

I came in with “I have tea!” and somehow left with a full lesson on whether it was my story to tell. 😂

Which, honestly, is rude because I was not emotionally prepared for my gossip to be cross-examined.

But April’s point is actually helpful: before you repeat something, ask yourself, “Am I sharing this because it helps someone, protects someone, or gives necessary context… or am I just enjoying having information?”

There are two kinds of “don’t ask.”

The real “don’t ask”…

and the “please notice I am being dramatic and gently force me to tell you everything” don’t ask.

This is why female friendship is a very complicated but beautiful legal system. 😂

April followed the instructions exactly, which was technically correct and emotionally incorrect.