After times of great difficulty or extreme sleep deprivation, do you find yourself wanting to abandon your entire existence? Do you want to move somewhere else and start your life over again? Do you ever yearn for a break from your life? Do some of your relationships cause you so much stress you fantasize about running away and never coming back? Do you daydream about hitting the open road and heading for a life less complicated?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if running away permanently were a viable solution? You may have heard of the old saying, “where ever you go, there you are.”
Unfortunately, there is nowhere you go can where you can ever escape yourself. If you don’t like yourself, or you haven’t made peace with yourself for things you’ve done in the past, you will be dealing with that baggage forever.
Regrettably, no life you create somewhere else for yourself would be free of stress. The issue is not your surroundings. Your issue is your inability to cope with stress in your surroundings. If you don’t change anything about yourself, you’ll just take whatever is inside you wherever you go.
Therapy teaches you how to gain awareness by using stress as opportunities for growth, understanding, bettering yourself, changing behaviors and creating more intimate relationships with others. You learn methods for building resilience, determination, and motivation.
As a result you learn how to fight the devils you know, and focus on forging a more resilient self out of your stressful experiences.
It’s time to unpack.
Carrie
