Other people blog, but not me. At least that was what I thought, but the temptation is too strong. I want to create a blog that’s as therapeutic as a jacuzzi. After all, I am a therapist, and I spend most of my waking hours helping people feel better and do better. I’ve got a lot to say on the subject, and not all of it agrees with the conventional wisdom. Perhaps very little matches the conventional wisdom, but that will be for you to decide. Everyone has an opinion and obviously I have mine, so it’s time I put it out there for folks who don’t show up in my office or call me on the phone or email with a request for help. I welcome your comments and questions and will do my best to respond, though given how little I know about blogging, I may be the only person who reads this.
Therapy is about having the desire to grow and change and to be open to possibilities. If you have the desire to grow and become aware of what is happening around you and your part in all of it, and if you can accept that what is, is, amazingly, many options present themselves. Options include changing your thoughts, changing your feelings, and/or changing your behavior. They’re all inter-linked, so if you change one, all the rest change, too. All of this can be done without drugs, though modern day thinking would have you believe otherwise. But more on this as we get to know each other better. For now, open yourself to the iconcept that drug-free is a possibility.
My model for therapy is an encouragement and empowerment model instead of a disease model. I believe that when relationships aren’t working (with kids, spouses, friends, family, self) it’s because we’re discouraged, not sick. If that’s true, than we need to look for ways to feel encouraged, and there are lots of those around. One of the ways I encouraged myself was to take a road trip. A lot can be learned doing something out of the ordinary and allowing yourself to follow a dream. If you’d like to read my trip journal, check it out at Road Trip.