Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Why Good Things Felt Like a Trap (opens in new tab)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~Carl Jung I was sitting in my therapist’s office when she asked me a question that made me freeze. “Tell me about the last time something good happened in your life.” I opened my mouth to answer, then stopped. My mind went blank. Not because nothing good had happened, but because I genuinely couldn’t remember letting myself enjoy any of it. She waited. The silence felt heavy. Finally, I said, “I g...