Engaging in therapy does not feel safe because it isn’t.

It takes us to places we’ve worked hard to avoid, Therapy asks us to look honestly at what we carry, to open doors we’ve kept shut, to speak truths we’ve avoided even in our own minds. That kind of courage doesn’t appear on command; it grows quietly until we finally feel it rise.

Until then, we often stick to our familiar patterns, our habitual responses.

They feel safe—comfortable routes we’ve walked for so long they start to feel like progress. And yet, because it’s easy and accessible, we convince ourselves it’s the right direction. Safety often looks like that. But real growth? That usually begins the moment we’re willing to step off the path we know.

But we have to be ready to step off, to travel the “unsafe” paths. We have to be ready to take the risk to discard the illusion of safety for the real thing.