Rebecca Ivory: ‘I don’t know if I’d be a writer if I were born into a different family’

Rebecca Ivory: 'I wouldn’t get away with using therapy-speak with my family or friends, particularly my boyfriend, who is especially practical.' Photograph: Ruth Medjber

You joined a therapy group aged 19, many of whose members were significantly older than you. Why was that and did this experience feed into Free Therapy? I think there are some lessons you have to learn the hard way, and sometimes I wonder if starting therapy as an adolescent is a way to avoid valuable and formative life experience. I sometimes feel embarrassed thinking about myself as a 19-year-old in a support group giving feedback to people who had an awful lot more experience than I did. I think it was gracious of them to accept it, but I don’t see now how my input was of value.

If the goal of therapy is to overcome all of our faults, might we lose all our idiosyncrasies and uniqueness too? I’m about to turn 31, so when I was a teenager, I feel like I thought about my body, particularly the size of my body, every single day, which makes me feel embarrassed and sad but I doubt I’m alone in that experience. Now young women are interested in being strong while I think girls my age only wanted to be thin. Even now, this is the first thing that comes to mind when I try to recall my experience.

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