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My brother once asked why the new hoover (vacuum cleaner) had a light on it and was told "so you can still see what you're hoovering in a powercut"

You know how many cards there are in a deck?

People can shuffle them into a random order and then memorise the order, so it's really not that many cards.

Each time you shuffle the deck it's the same familiar cards, we can easily recognise and differentiate every card in the deck.

But how many different ways are there to arrange that deck of cards? How many possible combinations?

More than there are stars in the sky. Every shuffle is unique.

I love my job because I get to use familiar ideas to help people make sense of their own unique shuffle 😊

That's not how I teach therapists to work.

We don't use leading questions, we do really and genuinely want to understand and I've never worked with someone who wasn't totally unique even if their story was superficially similar to another

A good therapist can feel like they're reading your mind.

Emotional intelligence isn't the only skill involved in that, still a big part of it.

That way they can describe the driver, assuming they survive.

Is that why the dinosaurs didn't eat her?

That's fair. Your therapist isn't there to fix the whole world with you.

That what you do outside the therapy room