#39: MBT Group Therapy > Between Making Space and Taking Space

🎙️ Group Session – “Between Making Space and Taking Space”

Welcome to this episode of the MBT podcast.

In this episode, we step inside an MBT group therapy session where we explore how difficult it can be to make space for yourself while continuing to care for the people around you.

What begins as a series of personal reflections gradually develops into a deeper conversation about loss, responsibility, recognition, and the beliefs that quietly shape the way we live our lives.

How do you know when it is okay to choose yourself?

And how do you stop placing your own needs behind everyone else’s?

Today, we listen to a group where curiosity, vulnerability, and different perspectives continually come together.

And perhaps more importantly:

What happens when you realize that the space you so willingly give to others is the very space you have never allowed yourself?

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🧠 What is central in this episode

Making space for yourself

A central theme throughout this session is making space.

Space to grieve.

Space to ask questions.

Space to acknowledge your own needs.

For many group members, that turns out to be far more difficult than it first appears.

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When loss continues to travel with you

Loss does not always fade with time.

Sometimes it changes shape.

Sometimes it quietly stays in the background for years.

And sometimes it unexpectedly finds its way back into the present.

The group explores how grief is deeply personal and unfolds differently for everyone.

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Staying curious about yourself

Throughout the session, one invitation keeps returning.

Not only to stay curious about others.

But also about yourself.

Why do I feel this way?

Where does this reaction come from?

And what might it be trying to tell me?

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Letting go of old beliefs

Many of our beliefs once helped us survive.

Don’t be a burden.

Don’t take up too much space.

Take care of everyone else first.

But do those beliefs still serve us today?

Or are they keeping us from living more freely?

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Connection through different perspectives

One of the strengths of this group session is the way members help one another without trying to solve each other’s problems.

By asking questions.

By remaining curious.

And by allowing different perspectives to exist side by side.

It is within that space that new understanding begins to emerge.

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🌟 The common thread

The common thread in this episode is that personal growth often begins when you give yourself the same space that you so naturally give to others.

Mentalizing is not only about understanding another person’s inner world.

It is also about becoming curious about your own.

And discovering that both deserve equal attention.

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💬 Closing

This episode reminds us that change does not always begin with finding the right answers.

Sometimes it begins by asking a different question.

A question that is not only about someone else.

But also about yourself.

And perhaps meaningful change begins with one simple thought:

“Can I give myself the same space that I so naturally give to others?”