Chelsea Handler Shares How Therapy Gave Her “Self-Awareness”

Chelsea Handler has recently opened up about her experiences in therapy and how taking care of her mental health helped her fall in love with fellow comic Jo Koy.

“I had gone a long time without ever sitting down to contemplate or reflect. And therapy changed that,” she said in a new interview. “It gives you the gift of self-awareness. I would never have been open to dating Jo Koy unless I had had therapy.”

“Jo was the first person in my life who I didn’t want to leave,” Handler continued. “He was the first man, romantically, in a long time that didn’t annoy me. That’s been my MO with men always is that they don’t know when to leave or they don’t know when to stop talking. I always felt like ‘Nope, this isn’t right, this isn’t it.’ And I would cut things off right away as soon as I felt that. So, to have a slow burn where I was hanging out with Jo for a year before anything transpired was something I had never experienced.”

In addition to finding love, Handler has also been able to embrace her body and life more than she was able to before beginning therapy.

“I want to spend my life being real, being present and having people rely on me for the truth and knowing that I’m going to show up if you need me,” she said.

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