Therapy Talk (I’m Self Aware)

A song about knowing exactly why you’re spiralling and still spiralling anyway.

Therapy Talk (I’m Self Aware) came from the very annoying realisation that self-awareness does not automatically make you emotionally healthy.

I can name my patterns. I can explain my triggers. I can talk about attachment, anxiety, boundaries, family history and coping mechanisms like I’m giving a tiny lecture from inside my own disaster. But knowing why you do something doesn’t always stop you from doing it. Sometimes it just means your spiral has better vocabulary.

That felt funny to me, but also painfully true.

A lot of people my age have grown up with therapy language everywhere — online, in friendships, in dating, in music, in the way we talk about ourselves. That can be really helpful. It can also become another way to overthink everything until you’re not actually feeling your feelings anymore, just analysing them from every possible angle.

The song is me making fun of myself with affection. I am trying to grow. I am trying to be healthier. I am also still capable of turning one weird text into a full emotional investigation.

Healing is real. So is being a little ridiculous on the way there.