Are you feeling discouraged or struggling to find joy in your life?
When you’re hurting, worried, frightened, or feeling out of control you may have difficulty dealing with daily life. Sometimes you may just feel “paralyzed”, as though you can’t even put one foot in front of the other.
Life does not always go according to plan. Our relationships change, our priorities shift, and we can be left feeling unhappy, highly anxious and discouraged. These thoughts and feelings can have a grave impact on your life, especially when you’re trying to juggle family and work responsibilities and still make time to care for yourself. You may be experiencing intense emotions triggered by a loss, illness or a significant life transition. You could be prone to depression or anxiety. Or, you may have no idea why you’re feeling so bad and feel guilty for not being more engaged at work or with your family. It’s totally normal to experience periods of time that just don’t feel good, but when these moments turn into weeks or months, it’s important to get professional help to identify and address your unhappiness.
Many People Experience The Ups And Downs Of Life’s Emotional Rollercoaster
Almost all of us go through some period of time when we experience a loss, transition or challenge that makes our lives feel overwhelming or even unmanageable. During these down times, it’s only natural to seek comfort and relief from emotional pain. Unfortunately, there are many “quick fixes” that can numb pain, but actually make things worse, such as self-medicating with alcohol or drugs, food and “retail therapy.” There is also the tendency to withdraw from friends and family and become isolated during these tough times. While some people may be able to push through challenging times on their own, others can benefit from going to counseling. If you are struggling, counseling can be a valuable place to get support, guidance and practical solutions so you can feel better and enjoy your life.
You Can Feel Better And Individual Therapy Can Help
It can be very helpful to have someone point out the strengths we may have forgotten we have, the blind spots we may not know exist and to offer a different and informed perspective. And, during challenging times, it can also be beneficial to have a compassionate therapist help us identify and address those aspects of our lives and of ourselves that are causing pain.
Comforts of Home Counseling can provide you with the safe and nonjudgmental space to work through challenging emotions and painful situations. Your therapist will help you view things from different perspectives, offer honest feedback and provide ongoing support. Together, you can identify your self-limiting patterns and learn effective ways of handling stress and conflict.
“Therapy can be time consuming, I’m not sure it’s worthwhile.”
Therapy is an investment in yourself and in your family. By investing in yourself now, you are not only creating the opportunity to feel better sooner, but therapy can also help you create a solid emotional foundation that you can draw on the rest of your life. Unprocessed or misunderstood feelings can also impact how you engage in relationships, influence productivity at work, increase stress and affect your family. However, working through difficult feelings can create the space for emotionally healthy relationships and improved self-esteem.
“I’m afraid that therapy will focus on all that is making me feel bad and make me feel even worse.”
Therapy will not make anything worse. What therapy will do is make you more aware of what is occurring within your life. This awareness can sometimes be painful, but sifting and sorting through that pain is necessary to move forward and heal. Until you really know what’s wrong, how can you go about fixing it?
The therapists at Comforts of Home Counseling are here to give our clients the necessary tools to find positive solutions and live a life they imagined. Individual therapy is a process that can assist in helping you find strategies to move forward, become “unstuck” and feel hopeful that today is the beginning of a more fulfilling life. It is possible to feel like yourself again – maybe even better than before – and to experience more ease, flow and joy in your life.
We can help you:
- Navigate through a major life decision.
- Figure out how to make the changes you want in your life or relationships but are struggling to achieve.
- Move out of depression and/or anxiety and into your life.
- End the struggle with negative relationship patterns (being a people pleaser, finding yourself in toxic relationships, struggling with setting healthy boundaries).
- Find the power to heal and move forward from grief and rebuild your life after losses in your life.
- Find more effective ways to manage anger.
- Cope and manage recent events that feel overwhelming.
- Learn to love and take care of yourself.