During my counselling training, one of my tutors shared an analogy that has stayed with me ever since. She compared therapy to a snow globe. She said that in a session it can feel like the globe is being shaken. We might revisit experiences from the past to understand how they continue to affect things now. When those experiences have been sitting quietly in the background for years, bringing them into focus can stir things up. But the important part of the analogy wasn’t the