Many people are afraid to start therapy—even when they're struggling through the hardest time of their life. Here's why they shouldn't be.
make sense
, on account of what you’ve lived through. Maybe you've survived major trauma, and have a hard time feeling safe. Perhaps you've lived through a loved one's betrayal, and now you often feel like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Instead of beating yourself up for reacting in ways you don't understand, you can start to develop compassion for who you are and what you've been through.
You may also find out that you have more strength than you knew, the same strength that has sustained you this far and that drew you to the work of therapy. Along the way, you’ll understand more clearly the ongoing legacy of thesane you are. Many of the people I work with even start to see that what they called “crazy” was the radically sane part of themselves that refused to go along with the insanity around them. For example, you might have been labeled the"problem child" in your family because you were the only one who refused to sweep longstanding problems under the rug, and you couldn't help but shine a light on the things that everyone else chose to ignore.
Although these ways of coping might not work so well anymore, they got you through a perilous past. They were the very best that anyone in your position could have done.
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