Challenges to Stepping Stones

My journey to self-care meant giving myself space to breathe, imagine peacefulness, and to explore positive focused-thoughts.

Individuals receive guarantees once they begin the adult journey: Challenges will arise. How we meet the request to engage depends on what resiliency factors we have in our lives. We watched our parents and grandparents work without ceasing, and we by reason of personal experience, began life the same exact way. Without training to learn how to balance our lives, we usually rush ahead tackling life rather than accomplishing goals.

If you looked at my life five years ago, you’d see more worry, stress, and fretting than you’d see if you followed my daily steps today. My life in the past was encompassed by the next assignment due in my Bachelor’s program, looking at the leadership powerpoint presentations I needed to organize with live, online people, and the stresses of another needed surgery for my arm.

One day, I realized I was barely making it through and decided to see the doctor. She helped me recognize the signs of depression and I began taking a medication for the time. It helped reduce the internal battles of self-doubt. While the time I used the medication helped, so did therapy. Speaking to a counselor all through my Bachelor’s and my Master’s helped me to grow into the clinician I am today.

When we walk the path we talk, we provide solid evidence for the tools and tactics we used to climb out of the pit. I believe the one foundation which has given me the best tools to connect with clients is the ability to acknowledge my personal struggle, to empathize with another’s pain, and to be willing to show transparency.

Without a genuine approach, we sound like brass clanging the wind without a steady…

Related posts:

Houseplants help to improve the indoor air quality besides adding an aesthetic charm to your home. These are the top five indoor plants that remove toxins from air and purify the atmosphere.

I am 25 years old and attended college out of high school. Due to illness in the family I had dropped out to return home and help out. Since then my grandmother has passed away and I have fallen on…

Fortunately Altspacevr engineer JimmyZ has added json export. This can give us a list of our favorited worlds, so that we can more easily see which ones we want to re-visit and photograph. In a web…