Mark Baxter

Yeah.

We spent a lot of the first half of life building things, building our coping, building a family, building our finances, building a career.

It comes to a point where it's like, what is all this stuff?

And actually, the second half is about pulling it back and tearing it down a little bit.

What's not really useful here?

Or what's just me surviving, actually, rather than actually thriving?

And they're big questions.

Yeah.

And it might be something around, you know, the bits and pieces of life, but for many people it's like getting in touch with their anger again, saying no, you know, setting boundaries.

And knowing what a boundary is and like setting it with confidence and dealing with the guilt that comes with that and working with the secondary guilt.

Yeah, I hear it a lot.

And then understanding underneath what's going on, like what's driving this kind of like, well, I have not been able to express this.

It makes a lot of sense when I look back and we can kind of work, you know.

So sometimes it's around that kind of stuff.

It's like, how can I be more me?

Yeah.

And healthy anger is part of setting boundaries.

Yeah.

We think about anger as in like some of its more corrosive forms, but there's an energy there that people want to get in touch with.

People pleasing and self-sacrificing, they're huge things that come up in the therapy room a lot.