SUSAN WARREN WARSHOW, LCSW
Alone on a cruise ship's deck, I poised my camera to capture the colorful junk passing at a distance between the surreal limestone formations jutting out of the South China Sea. After returning home, I eagerly surveyed my photos, and two dark figures on the deck of the junk startled me. I zoomed in, and there they were!
Never Alone
(Photograph, Couple on a junk at Ha Long Bay, South China Sea, Vietnam)
I can't take credit for this impressionistic image of eternal lovers. Still, I have choices whether to act upon my curiosity and enlarge upon the most compelling phenomena before me. Similarly, in psychotherapy, I can help my clients discover rich possibilities when we focus internally and invite unexpected unconscious forces to transform our relationship.
I thought I was alone on the deck of my ship in a vast sea, as many of us have felt during a terrifying pandemic, but sometimes perception is not reality. When we scan the horizon, we may find something that reminds us of our timeless human bond.