From the author: In this note I think about what changes are possible through personal therapy and what are not.​I think that all changes in life associated with undergoing personal therapy , occur through self-knowledge. It's like exploring the planet we live on. People study nature, inhabitants, laws and environmental phenomena. People don't really try to change this, probably because they can't. In a sense, we are hostages of our planet and are forced to live with what we have. We somehow learn to live on Earth. Yes, people can build cities and roads, develop industry, change the landscape, fly into space. However, people cannot change the sequence of seasons, shift oceans, stop hurricanes or cancel other natural phenomena. I dare to suggest that we don’t really need this, because our world is beautiful just the way it is. This is our planet Earth and it is the only one in the solar system. If we transfer this metaphor to the human psyche, we get the same thing. Thanks to psychotherapy, you can better learn your personal history and the reasons for habitual reactions, learn to quickly recognize your needs and satisfy them, and learn new ways of interacting with the environment. Indeed, a lot can be developed, learned and even improved. But it is impossible to significantly change oneself, to abandon personal history, and it is not really necessary. Just like moving to another planet. To recognize my uniqueness and the value of this uniqueness, to give myself the right to live my own life, to accept myself with everything that makes me who I am - this is perhaps what a person with his own psyche can definitely do in the process of psychotherapy. At first glance , it seems that this is not much. But first of all, isn’t this what we call happiness being yourself? And secondly, being such a traveler through the landscape of your own soul is not so easy. First of all, readiness and interest in meeting your inner world is important. It takes courage to be where it can be difficult to be. You need patience and a willingness to continue when you find yourself going in circles again. You need to learn to draw maps of the area and navigate them, which, translated into the language of psychotherapy, means being able to collect your experience, analyze and return to it, otherwise the journey will be forgotten. And the maps of our past are very important, because they are the key to our future. And of course, you need a guide - someone who will accompany you on the journey, with whom you can share your observations and who you can count on in a difficult situation, someone who will simply be a faithful companion and assistant, someone with whom you can share this journey. It’s easy to guess that here I’m talking about the role of a therapist. Psychotherapy is a difficult journey that requires a large investment of time, effort, money, and at the same time one of the most beautiful, exciting, fateful.