Dear Joe:

How nice it is to see your face!

The pot-of-gold, there is a lot in it, your last post here. A very important element in your mind and life. You wrote about what the pot-of-gold may be: “That thing which will finally give me happiness and satisfaction? That which will suddenly make me see and understand everything in my life? Love? More cake?”

I would like to examine this with you further…?

The quote I placed here reminds me of what I read some months ago, the term “The Salvation Fantasy”- that many clients/ patients expect from psychotherapy. That their healing, their understanding of everything in their lives will bring that “happily ever after” existence following the healing and understanding. Like in the fairy tale book and like in religions: happily ever after life in heaven or Paradise Earth, or Nirvana.

And there is no such thing. So the expectation is a set up for failure. What do you think? Does this bring any more light to your figuring out what is the-pot-of-gold for you?

anita