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"I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now"

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There is something quietly radical about an entertainer treating therapy not as damage control but as infrastructure. Trisha Goddard’s line lands because it refuses the usual celebrity arc of breakdown-to-redemption and instead presents a plain sequence: work on your mind, then build a life. The unshowy phrasing matters. “A lot of cognitive behavioural therapy” isn’t mystical or romantic; it’s procedural, almost administrative. CBT is the therapy of receipts and homework, the kind that suggests change is less a revelation than a daily practice. In a media culture that rewards messy confessionals, she’s emphasizing the boring part: repetition, skills, and accountability.

The second clause, “and am having a family now,” carries the real subtext. It frames family not as an inevitability or a cure, but as a choice made possible by stability. “Now” is doing heavy lifting: it implies a before, a period when family might have felt unsafe, unmanageable, or simply out of reach. Coming from a talk-show figure whose career traded in other people’s crises, it reads as a reclamation of privacy and agency. She’s no longer just the facilitator of public pain; she’s describing her own life in terms that don’t invite spectacle.

The cultural context is post-stigma mental health talk, where “therapy” has become everyday vocabulary but still risks being performative. Goddard’s intent feels pointedly anti-performative: therapy wasn’t content, it was preparation. The line works because it treats emotional labor as forward-looking, not merely reparative.

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Goddard, Trisha. (2026, January 16). I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-had-a-lot-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-129653/

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Goddard, Trisha. "I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-had-a-lot-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-129653/.

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"I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-had-a-lot-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-129653/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Trisha Goddard (born December 1, 1957) is a Entertainer from England.

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