Psychotherapy involves entering into the stuck places of your life and listening for how you struggle to live freely and authentically. Because we carry the past with us, in our muscles and memories, we often live as if we cannot be free of it. Yet, right here in the present is the only place in time where change can occur. So while you cannot manipulate the past, you can change your relationship to it by changing the way you relate to yourself and others right here and now.