Stripper Names in the Real World

When you hear certain names you sometimes get an immediate impression.  Names like, say, Candi.  Then - when you actually see the person you find yourself surprised that their boobs are normal sized, that their hair is not platinum blond and they are not wearing six inch heels with a super short skirt.  When you are told that your new therapist has such a name... you kind of wonder who's going to be shaking your hand when you meet them, who's going to greet you in the lobby and who's going to be listening to your innermost workings.  Reminding yourself that Candice is a perfectly respectable name... you try to talk yourself out of stereotyping and just prepare for the pleasant surprise of someone new entering your life.

I am really glad that was my thought process because she is completely awesome and it left me room to laugh at myself - which I need to be able to do for a good experience in therapy.  Not that I plan to insult her by telling her my original thoughts on her name.

By the end of the session she was saying that working with me is going to be fun.  Something about that made me feel pretty damn good.  At least I'm not a drag for them.  I know my last therapist enjoyed working with me.  I am also pretty sure, just based on this one hour session that we are going to do good work together and maybe once and for all... I can get rid of "the face".