You can do this hard thing

Carrie Newcomer often articulates more clearly than I can. Newcomer attributes this quote of “you can do this hard thing” to an interview with Barbara Kingsolver about Montessori education.

I so often want to tell my clients, yes, you CAN do this hard thing. You are doing this hard thing by coming to therapy and surviving whatever it is/was that happened or is happening to you that brought you to my office. Whether it’s learning to add big numbers, to post-abuse growth and survival, transitions, grief…oh, folks, you are doing hard things and you can do hard things.