Jessica Alba Talks Therapy Sessions with Daughter Honor, Explains Why They Started Going Together

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Jessica Alba is getting honest about how therapy has changed hr life. The 42-year-old actress says that she started going to therapy with her 15-year-old daughter Honor about four years ago. “I think it creates a more compassionate container for people to live inside, and I think it can allow for more conversation where there are misunderstandings or misalignments,” Jessica told Real Simple. “I go to therapy so I can be kinder toward people I don’t always agree with, because I want to be happy.

I still want to coexist, and I don’t want to live angry, irritated, or upset with people who don’t think like me. I want to be able to live in harmony with all.” Jessica talked about how therapy with her daughters started. Keep reading to find out more… “Honor was probably 11, and we were arguing all the time about dumb stuff.

And I was like, I don’t want to live like this. This is not fun. I didn’t want us to have a wedge between us. As her mother, when I say something, she’s going to hear it as an argument or as me trying to control her.

I wanted there to be someone who could explain things in a way I couldn’t. What I said to Honor was, ‘I want to be a better parent to you, and this is your forum to basically talk about everything that gets on your nerves that I do,’” Jessica said. Jessica says that the therapy helped. “It put me in check,” she said. “Like, ‘Yeah, I totally do that.