Body and soul

I was bemoaning the lack of maturity (/stage of evolution) of some well-known faith leaders recently and a friend recommended this blog post, by a pastor explaining what he gains from therapy. I liked this paragraph:

When I consider the effect of therapy on my life, the word "unraveling" comes to mind. I began therapy because my life was full of knots, which (although they held my life and self-understanding together) choked off my connection to my true self. When threads are tangled together, it's almost impossible to differentiate one from another. They overlap and interweave and you cannot see where one thread starts, where it stops, and what path it takes to get there. Our motivations get lost in our choices, our presents get confused with our pasts, and our conscious behaviors get entangled with our subconscious desires. It's all but impossible to identify these threads and how they interconnect when they're knotted together. Therapy has been a space for me to slowly pull apart those knots and to lay the threads down side by side. I can then identity and evaluate them with an expert who is trained in thread management.

Adam McHugh, author of Introverts in the Church
I like it because I've experienced the same benefits, not only in his metaphorical sense to my soul and 'life' but also literally to my muscles and connective tissues from my physical therapies. They are two sides of the same coin for me and this is a perfect description of both.