According to the Daily Mail on Tuesday, former First Lady Michelle Obama disclosed that she is receiving therapy, which she says is assisting her in moving into what she views as the “next phase” of her life.
Michelle talked about becoming a “empty nester” and acknowledged that she needs “some help” as she gets closer to 60 on The Jay Shetty Podcast.
I’m currently in therapy since I’m transitioning at this stage of my life, you know? I’m sixty years old, and I’ve survived a very trying time in my life with my family still intact. She declared, “My girls are in—you know, they’ve been launched, and I’m an empty nester.”
As she works through personal issues, Michelle revealed that she now has “other voices” to talk to and a “new person who’s getting to know me.”
She is in a situation where “every choice I’m making is completely mine” after leaving the public sector.
“I no longer have the justification that my children need this, my husband needs that, or the nation needs that.”
In addition to focusing on her connection with her mother, she said that therapy helps her “unwind some old habits and sort through some old guilt” and acts as a “tune-up for this next phase.”
I’m getting ready for this next stage because I think it’s a completely different stage of my life. “And now that I know,” she added, “let me go get some coaching while I’m doing it.
Anyone in need of mental health services should get in touch with a therapist, Michelle said.
“I am an advocate of it. Everybody needs to find their form of it, the best way they can,” she said.
Michelle has been active on the podcast circuit recently while promoting her new project with her brother, Craig Robinson.
During her interviews, she also addressed long-running rumours about her marriage to former President Barack Obama.
Last week, she put the speculation to rest during a podcast interview with entrepreneur and investor Steven Bartlett.
“If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it,” she said, laughing.
“Let me tell you, he would know it,” she added, pointing at her brother, Craig Robinson. “And everybody would know it.”
She acknowledged that marriage has been “hard” for both her and the former president but added, “I wouldn’t trade it,” describing Barack Obama as, “as the young people say… my person.”
“The beauty of my husband and our partnership is that neither one of us was ever really, ever going to quit at it, because that’s not who we are. And I know that about him. He knows that about me,” she concluded.
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