There was a time when all I had, and all I could see were problems. I couldn’t advance my career, my relationships were tumultuous, and I felt like life just owed me something better. It’s easy now to admit I had a lot of issues I had to figure out.
It wasn’t always easy to even see that problems existed, much less admit to them. What happened naturally was to blame my circumstances on other things. If my career wasn’t going the way I wanted, it must have been a result of unfair treatment. In personal relationships, it’s always easier to see the issue as something other people are responsible for causing, thus they should be responsible for fixing.
I decided to reach out for counselling and after some time talking with the counsellors, I became very impressed with how gently, but deliberately they approached the different problems I brought up. I gained a lot from these sessions with the counsellors, and it moved me enough to take up a counselling psychology. It felt right. It felt like I was doing something that meant something, and I felt in control of what I was doing.
During the process, I learned about all the different issues people may face, and how those issues may impact people. I didn’t realise that I’d also learned it wasn’t just about the problems, but also about how we look at those problems, which helps in how we deal with them. It wasn’t about who to blame when something doesn’t go right in our lives. It’s about identifying the things happening to us, and things we’re going through so we can address our feelings and thoughts in a constructive manner.
This realisation hit me about myself, while learning about how counselling psychology could help other people. I was learning how to build the conceptual, mental, and emotional tools I needed to deal with my own issues. It gave me a sense of control over myself and my situation that I didn’t previously have.
This was about myself, and my problems; but it was also about how I take control of those problems so they don’t define who I am. It also made me more deeply appreciate the counsellors I had talked with, and it crossed my mind that maybe they went through a similar epiphany about themselves and what they were doing.
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