revenir (verb): to come back, to return (Fr.)
People have asked me before why I called my business this funky French word*.
Well, the simple thinking behind it was that people aren’t defined by what brings them to therapy, or the things that have caused them to struggle. A lot of people can look back through the hazy mists and spot a Me Before-even if whisper of a whisker-that they compare to their Me Today, and they bounce it off their Could it be Me? .
The deeper I’ve gotten into trauma specialization, the more strongly I’ve come to hold that Me Before never went away, and never will. That’s just not how the mind/body/spirit/soul work. Whatever happened to you that you hope returns, or you can return to, or get back, I want to help you make peace with what we can reconcile with Me Right Now.
(Spoiler alert: this sort of work may take some time.).
So whatever grammatical voodoo you want to do around Me Before coming back, or you’re coming back to Me Before, that’s up to you. But the fundamental You never went away, and that You might be looking into the therapy thing. Maybe it’s time to start asking some questions about that?
Knowing there’s a Me Before and hoping she/he/it becomes correct in the mirror for you again is a very big deal.
Let’s talk.
*That’s actually not true. I don’t think anyone has-not once. True statement.