About a year ago, I started a new job, as an advocator: for myself. I had been in training several years prior. Yet I still find it to be the most challenging position I have ever held. I am constantly insecure about the results and although the pay can be tangible, it’s usually a payoff of something you cannot touch, only feel- peace and courage. I started actively advocating for myself because I finally accepted that if I didn’t, no one else would. I felt that my well-being and life’s journey were two things I couldn’t put in the hands …
Often it is not the issue we have difficulty with but how we perceive the issue. In working with clients I see the challenge but also take note of the overlying energy. If we first re frame the context in which we are working to one of excitement, growth and possibility it makes the process of change so much easier. And in that growth is never ending, the in the moment experience becomes the focus of life itself. And there the choice lies, to live in fear (it’s hard) or in joy (it’s easy).
In reality, it is easy. Just edit …
Personal growth is much like constructing a new building. First you realize that you have out grown the original structure. You just don’t feel as comfortable as before. Maybe the space feels a bit to tight or confining. Maybe the structure doesn’t feel as safe as it once was. You might notice some cracks in the foundation and question the plan of the original contractor.
And it just doesn’t feel like you anymore.
You start contemplating a move. You dream about how this new building will look and feel like. You become excited about creating a space just for you. You also …
When we talk about therapy, we often talk about what has brought someone to therapy: depression, court order, failed marriage, mental illness. None of those things are good and so the judgement that can sometimes come with someone being in therapy tends to be negative. What is hardly ever discussed is what keeps people in therapy. Which in many cases is the positive outcome and growth that can be achieved from it. In 2010, during a post NBA Championship game-clincher interview, Los Angeles Laker, Ron Artest aka Metta World Peace said he wanted to thank “my doctor, Dr. Sandy, …
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