Change is hard !

I was sitting in the therapy room with a client who was dealing with depression, very challenging life circumstances, difficult socio-economic circumstances, a negative relational context, and so on. Most cases that end up in the therapy room will have one or more of these themes present. After all that is why they are in the therapy room. 

Going through the change processes in our class has made me more sensitive to how we set ourselves up and mostly our clients to be ready for failure. My struggle in the therapy room has been to identify mechanisms through which I can prevent doing that to the clients I work with on a daily basis. If life was simple as following instructions, therapy would be a less significant profession in human history. But because there are biological, social, relational, political, and economic streams each of us swim against or with, the challenge of making change is harder than ever. 

If not helping me recognize the positive effects after a run or the joy of being outside, this class has helped me understand what we expect of our clients is something we can rarely accomplish consistently. It changes your perspective towards growth and challenges.