Personal Counseling: A Fresh Perspective
We are so messed up.
Let’s be honest for a sec. In fact, nevermind. You can’t. You can’t possibly know everything that’s messed up in your life without another person looking in.
(An added benefit to marriage… and community I might add!)
We are simply blind to our blind spots (duh).
Some recent marriage counseling helped me realize that I have some personal issues that need some significant attention.
So, back to the plush offices with comfortable chairs, soothing music, and men with silky voices with an uncanny ability to ask tough personal questions without offending.
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I had my first personal counseling session yesterday morning and I can already feel the scales falling from my eyes. Sometimes it just takes a fresh, objective, 3rd party perspective to tell you what you already knew but really never believed.
I’ve got my next session on the calendar. Here’s to coming out clean.
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My therapist rocks. I go every week and about 80% percent of the time, I come out with a different perspective on something. (The other 20% of the time, he lets me vent unless something important comes up.)
My favorite part is that what happens in counseling stays in counseling. I don’t have to guard what I say to keep it from being gossiped all over our small town.
“Here’s to coming out clean” – Cheers!
Professional counseling seems to be all the rage nowadays. I find it funny that most of the time when I hear from people that recommend not going to a counselor or that it’s not necessary…those are people who don’t do it already, and are unaware first-hand of the benefits.
I think professional counseling (personal, marriage, etc) is a great thing to do. Plus the plush furniture sounds sweet.
Often times when people talk about counseling it is in a negative light, like if you go to counseling you have serious problems.
I will go to counseling just to have someone to talk to. Someone that is not connected to me in any way, someone that can listen to my BS and then speak truth into my life.
My Dad is a counselor, and so I have been around it my whole life. I have often thought about going to school to get a Masters in Counseling. Glad to hear that you are willing to admit your flaws John.