#justyeah

memewhore:

Thinking about something my new therapist said yesterday. She listened to me talk about the church for a while and asked me a few questions, and then she said something that’s been on my mind ever since.

I’m paraphrasing but she said it sounded like the mechanisms the church used to get members to stay and to feel isolated from the world are still trying to operate in my head, they’re still trying to do what they were designed to do by not letting me move on and let go.

Even though I’ve left and even though I don’t believe anymore, the church’s mental machinery is still trying to keep me isolated, still trying to claw me back.

When The Neighbourhood said “put me in the dirt let me be with the stars” I felt that