{"id":23604,"date":"2026-06-02T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/?p=23604"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:35:03","slug":"be-a-better-therapist-by-embracing-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unk.com\/blog\/be-a-better-therapist-by-embracing-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Better Therapist By Embracing Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”<\/em><\/p>\n

– Richard P. Feynman<\/p>\n

It’s so easy to fall in love with our own first opinions. It makes us feel and seem clever. Ah! Those twin balms, security and certainty. Lovely!<\/p>\n

But failure to keep the gates of meaning open, as comforting as certainty is, leads us away<\/em> from truth.<\/p>\n

Do we want the truth, or comfortable falsehoods?<\/p>\n

I recall during a therapy workshop I was attending a woman describing how she’d had this dream in which she’d been floating in a pond and began to gently drown.<\/p>\n

One of the other therapists present in the group immediately cut in: “Oh, how terrible! That must have been horrifying!”<\/p>\n

To which the other woman replied, “No, not at all! It was the most beautiful and gentle feeling of my life!”<\/p>\n

Now nothing was particularly lost in that encounter. But it shows how quickly we can, if we’re heedless, go from zero to:<\/p>\n