Look, I'm not anti-therapy. I have a lot of therapist friends, and therapy absolutely has its place. If you're stuck and your whole goal is healing - like, you really need to process past trauma and understand why you are the way you are - sometimes a therapist's office is the perfect place to go. Therapy gives you a safe space to talk through what happened to you without judgment, and that can feel really good.

Therapy is often past-focused. It's about understanding your history, working through old wounds, and making sense of the experiences that shaped you. And for some people, that's exactly what they need.

But here's the thing - therapy isn't for everybody. Coaching is future-focused. If you actually want to make forward progress and create something different than what you have right now in your life, coaching is the way to go. You can spend years understanding why you feel anxious, or you can learn what to do about it right now. Both are valid. Just depends what you're after.