The assistant spotted connections I couldn't see myself — I was too close to my own story. I thought the problem was in the last few years; it turned out the pattern goes back to childhood. It asked with precision, as if it knew where to look.
It is like a friend who has known you since childhood. By fifty you have none left — and here I got exactly that.
I liked that you can stop at any moment, come back and dig deeper. And it is not a one-off: in a few months you can go through it again, from a new point.