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In 2017, Tory (urged by Loki and [[Bel]]’s insistence) nearly begged her to go to therapy. Maci’s behavior was not only concerning to all those who knew and cared about her, but was now actively impeding progress being made through Chal’s rehabilitation and Neo’s own burgeoning death goddess training. Drawing from the half of her that had receded into anger, Maci reacted to this plea explosively - again. Tory was pregnant at this time with Epi's twins [[Skio]] and [[Kora]], and had no energy to argue with her ''again'' about doing the right thing to help herself and everyone else, nor the patience to enable her avoidance of dealing with this - ''again.'' When Maci's tantrum, which had culminated in a full screaming argument between two short-tempered deities, was complete, she stormed away to sulk and hide in the main palace. Tory, at his furious wits end after almost two years of this, let her go after Loki and Epi confirmed she was fine.
Neither of them had reached a resolution to this last argument when Neo, age-10-turning-11 at the time, came to Tory and Maci in tears - a rare sight for Neo, who was often stoic and calm. These tears and this breakdown from her daughter was the catalyst at last for Maci to snap to some sort of sense. Neo had never cried quite as hard as she had that night, at least not since she'd been really little, and Maci was gutted with the realization that Neo had come to know she herself was a source of Maci's disintegration. Maci agreed to speak at last to [[Epione]], the Olympian therapist who had [[Vrykolakas|helped Epi the previous year]], about her anxiety over Neo's scythe
Though Maci's therapy journey to make amends with Chal proved to be an ongoing challenge beyond this time period, opening up to Epione helped repair the fraying edges of her and Neo's relationship. Maci had agreed to see her after being shocked by Neo's breakdown, but admitted in her own words during her first sessions with Epione that the reasons she was there amounted basically to making her daughter and her husband happy. Step one was coming to terms with wanting to heal for her own sake and not someone else's - step two was for Maci to come to terms with what a "healed" version of herself could even look like. Thanatos and his legacy had inflicted so much upon her early life that now, face to face with assessing the damage done, Maci was terrified of who she would be be if that was all stripped away from her. Slowly, as Maci replayed both in words and [[memory theater]] what she had survived through long, long ago, Maci began to make peace with the notion that moving past it all - changing - didn't mean changing into something unrecognizable.
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