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Every experience in life, whether enjoyable, unpleasant or somewhere in-between, presents us with an opportunity to mature. However, we may choose to flee the experience and suppress all the feelings associated with it. We often learn at an early age that life works better when we avoid or minimize relational tension and therefore we develop strategies for accomplishing this. This approach leads to division between the heart (our feelings) and the mind (our intellect), which results in significant difficulties relating to self and others.
Each day of life is a series of experiences; imagine each of these experiences being encapsulated in their own brick. As we go through life we use those bricks to build walls around ourselves, to protect us from getting hurt. This seems effective, however, the walls also separate us from ourselves and others thus preventing us from experiencing intense feelings of joy, passion and sorrow.
Counseling is the careful process identifying these bricks and then slowly and gently taking down the wall, one brick at a time. Each brick is restored and redeemed and then re-laid into a beautiful formation that invites relationship, perhaps a bridge? In the context of this process we look at ways of being in relationship that will better prepare you for engaging in life’s many experiences. |
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