Well conveyed and insightful, that genuine healing involves recognising and accepting the full extent of the harm and its affects… before such cliches can have any value, if at all.
Thank you Martin! I appreciate your insight. Survivors often develop such deep coping mechanisms that recognizing the full extent of the harm can feel like peeling back layers of an old, heavy armor. But once that awareness emerges, it brings a new level of clarity, self-compassion and hope!
Hearing this from someone who has lived it, and is willing and able to talk about it, is such a valuable experience for me. Your last few sentences - my therapist has said similar to me, but because she obviously can't share her personal stories with me, or even really say "I've been there, I know", I'm sometimes left wondering if what she's saying comes from experience or textbooks. So thank you for this.
Dear Debs I am very happy my words resonated with you!
I speak from personal experience and have training as a psychotherapist. I believe that so-called professional rules can sometimes act as barriers, limiting a client’s progress. It’s important to remember that all therapy methods were created by people—so there’s always room for new approaches. Healing is not one-size-fits-all, and someone else may come up with an innovative method that helps in a different way. We should remain open to exploring and evolving new ways of supporting those in need. Thank you for your message!
Precisely. I think that's part of the reason so many people struggle with therapy. It's not that therapy doesn't work, it's that it can take a long, long time to find what works *for you*. I really appreciate your perspective, and your honesty.
Thank you so much for your comment! The thing is that not everybody has the funds to be in therapy for a long time. If we take a step back and look at the whole psychology/counselling world we can see it is pretty young as a field .. 100 years and the so called specialists do what they know best … create rules and barriers and labels. Sadly very few look at the client holistically which is my way of looking and the lengthy therapy is nowadays normalised as a concept.anyway lots to talk about! Thanks a lot for your comment!
Well conveyed and insightful, that genuine healing involves recognising and accepting the full extent of the harm and its affects… before such cliches can have any value, if at all.
Thank you Martin! I appreciate your insight. Survivors often develop such deep coping mechanisms that recognizing the full extent of the harm can feel like peeling back layers of an old, heavy armor. But once that awareness emerges, it brings a new level of clarity, self-compassion and hope!
Hearing this from someone who has lived it, and is willing and able to talk about it, is such a valuable experience for me. Your last few sentences - my therapist has said similar to me, but because she obviously can't share her personal stories with me, or even really say "I've been there, I know", I'm sometimes left wondering if what she's saying comes from experience or textbooks. So thank you for this.
Dear Debs I am very happy my words resonated with you!
I speak from personal experience and have training as a psychotherapist. I believe that so-called professional rules can sometimes act as barriers, limiting a client’s progress. It’s important to remember that all therapy methods were created by people—so there’s always room for new approaches. Healing is not one-size-fits-all, and someone else may come up with an innovative method that helps in a different way. We should remain open to exploring and evolving new ways of supporting those in need. Thank you for your message!
Precisely. I think that's part of the reason so many people struggle with therapy. It's not that therapy doesn't work, it's that it can take a long, long time to find what works *for you*. I really appreciate your perspective, and your honesty.
Thank you so much for your comment! The thing is that not everybody has the funds to be in therapy for a long time. If we take a step back and look at the whole psychology/counselling world we can see it is pretty young as a field .. 100 years and the so called specialists do what they know best … create rules and barriers and labels. Sadly very few look at the client holistically which is my way of looking and the lengthy therapy is nowadays normalised as a concept.anyway lots to talk about! Thanks a lot for your comment!
This is a fantastic podcast! Direct, to the point, and powerful.
Many thanks!
Dear Mike I am so thrilled to read your words! Thank you so much!