Practice

I love that my therapy job
is referred to as a practice.
The word means Doing and
Putting into action,
which is how we spend the session
putting things in their proper place,
like parents who should have parented us,
like a culture that should be kinder.

I don’t refer to my clients
as patients
as that word means to Suffer or Bear
although many of my clients
need to suffer more I believe or differently rather.
They need to suffer out loud and outrageously,
but to do it with someone, finally.
We practice impatience too,
toward that which isn’t serving.

Client means
to be Called or Lean or Incline
which feels truest as we
sit across from one another
for an hour.
Both of us leaning gently
toward their
deepest knowing.