Page 43 of Camp Bliss
To heal ourselves.
“Josh, how could you give up on this?”
I shake my head. Mosquitoes buzz my face, and I need to keep moving.
And nature's lesson—right here, right now—isn’t lost on me.
I have to keep going.
Josh broke a promise.
He betrayed us.
But I can’t do the same.
I don’t know how to salvage this plan with our budget gutted—and with loans that need to be repaid—but this is still what I want.
Will Greta want the same thing?
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GRETA
I believein prioritizing mental health.
I have a master’s degree in school counseling. I saw a counselor every week during my junior and senior years of college because I had to learn how to tell peopleno.How to feel like I mattered despite their approval.
I’m building a retreat center that’s founded on wellness in nature.
But I never thought I’d be desperate enough to try an online therapy platform.
Well, apparently, I am today.
Because I can’t process this by myself.
And along with learning that my boyfriend and business partner has left me, I’ve also had the unsettling realization that I have no friends.
Okay, maybe I’m being a little dramatic.
I have friends. Teacher friends. Grad school friends. College friends. I just haven’t done a very good job of nurturing any of those friendships lately.
Which probably warrants some self-examination.
Because when I threw Zach out of my cabin, I wanted to reach for someone. To pour my heart out to and be reassured that this isn’t my fault (intellectually, I know it isn’t) and reaffirmed that I don’t deserve this (intellectually, I know I don’t).
But I couldn’t think of who that reassuring person could be.
Not my parents. I’m literally dreading having to tell them about this. Reassuring is the last thing they’ll be. Mom will say that they warned me not to leave the security of teaching and risk everything. Dad will be angry.
At Josh. But maybe at me too.
He’ll ask me—again—why I let Josh walk away from Amazon in the first place.A man who can’t handle his own success is no man at all.I can already hear him.
Yeah, that’s the last thing I need right now.
I’m saying as much to Trina the therapist from Rise Online Counseling. Rise had a 9.1 rating on Top10.com. Not the highest, but the best rated with options to book a session 24/7.
And I couldn’t wait.
