How Therapy Can Help You
Therapy can help you gain insight and move toward health.
By gently expanding your awareness, therapy helps you better understand the things that have been blocking you from being able to move through life. This process frees your natural vitality and wisdom and rekindles your innate movement toward health. No longer ruptured and disconnected from yourself, you have an increased sense of inner harmony and strength, and you can respond to your problems with greater clarity, authenticity, and depth.
Therapy can ground you in your authentic self.
Therapy helps you discover and express the many aspects of who you are. As you learn more about yourself, you trust more in yourself and naturally operate more out of your personal truth. All the other benefits of therapy stem from this one: being in tune with and comfortable with who you are.
Therapy can liberate and revitalize you.
As you share the difficult feelings you have been carrying and they are responded to with compassion and gentle curiosity, their heaviness and any feelings of aloneness gradually decrease. As you start to see yourself in new ways, you feel an increasing sense of hope and possibilities. You discover you have more options than you realized. You feel more alive and have increased energy for new experiences and new challenges.
Therapy can give you tools to help yourself.
Through the process of therapy, you gain an intimate, working knowledge of yourself. You learn more about what has shaped you, how to recognize what is speaking from within you, how to nurture yourself, how you tend to neglect or sabotage yourself, and many other touchstones you can use for supporting yourself and growing in your daily life. You learn that you have an internal wisdom that is always available and waiting to guide you.
Therapy can increase your sense of meaning and satisfaction in your life.
You have a greater sense of well-being and living your life fully with increased awareness. You spend less energy on old problems and more on experiencing your life now.
Therapy can help you connect more deeply with others.
Because you are more grounded in yourself and are less restricted by old fears and ways of being, it becomes easier to open yourself up to others in a more genuine way. You trust that your authentic self has a unique value and beauty, and you can let it shine. Likewise, you can be more accepting of other people and their unique perspective and experiences.
Therapy can increase your resilience and calmness.
You find it easier to move through times of difficulty and change, and you can better handle the unexpected and the unknown. You begin to see problems from a different perspective: as challenges to which you have a profound capacity to respond and as sources of illumination that can deepen your journey toward knowing yourself and living a richer life.
“The soul . . . does nothing if you do nothing; but if you light a fire, it chops wood; if you make a boat, it becomes the ocean. ”